🛡️ CVE-2023-42804
🟢 CVSS 3.1 — Low ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-22 NVD
3.1
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

BigBlueButton is an open-source virtual classroom. BigBlueButton prior to version 2.6.0-beta.1 has a path traversal vulnerability that allows an attacker with a valid starting folder path, to traverse and read other files without authentication, assuming the files have certain extensions (txt, swf, svg, png). In version 2.6.0-beta.1, input validation was added on the parameters being passed and dangerous characters are stripped. There are no known workarounds.

Details

Severity LOW
CVSS Score 3.1
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-22
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-10-30
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2024-11-21
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
bigbluebutton

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