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    CVE-2020-12443

    BigBlueButton before 2.2.6 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files because the presfilename (lowercase) value can be a .pdf filename while the presFilename (mixed case) value has a ../ sequence. This can be leveraged for privilege escalation via a directory traversal to bigbluebutton.properties. NOTE: this issue exists because of an ineffective mitigation to CVE-2020-12112 in which there was an attempted fix within an NGINX configuration file, without considering that the relevant part of NGINX is case-insensitive.

    Published:Apr 29, 2020
    Last Modified:Nov 21, 2024
    EPS:Apr 29, 2020
    EPSS Score:0.00847
    CVSS Score:9.8

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Bigbluebutton
    Product
    Bigbluebutton

    Exploits

    https://github.com/mclab-hbrs/BBB-POChttps://github.com/mclab-hbrs/BBB-POC

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    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High