CVE-2024-38518
mediumpriority · track · 0EPSS 0.003 · 23 %ileDEEUEPSS · scored 2026-10-28
BigBlueButton is an open-source virtual classroom designed to help teachers teach and learners learn. An attacker with a valid join link to a meeting can trick BigBlueButton into generating a signed join link with additional parameters. One of those parameters may be "role=moderator", allowing an attacker to join a meeting as moderator using a join link that was originally created for viewer access. This vulnerability has been patched in version(s) 2.6.18, 2.7.8 and 3.0.0-alpha.7.
cvss
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode
ssvc
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affected products (3)
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advisories (1)
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- WID-SEC-W-2024-1471BigBlueButton: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2024-06-27csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in BigBlueButton ausnutzen, um Sicherheitsmaßnahmen zu umgehen oder vertrauliche Informationen offenzulegen.
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references (14)
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- https://cxsecurity.com/cveshow/CVE-2024-38518/cnnvd
- https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/commit/a9d436accdcd26ea66bed9f391488ac128cd62d1cnnvd
- https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/commit/ea6e9461dceae8fa593543d8c686f77bb8677e72cnnvd
- https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/pull/20279cnnvd
- https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/releases/tag/v3.0.0-alpha.7Patchcnnvd
- https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/security/advisories/GHSA-4m48-49h7-f3c4cnnvd
- https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/commit/a9d436accdcd26ea66bed9f391488ac128cd62d1enisa_euvd
- https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/commit/ea6e9461dceae8fa593543d8c686f77bb8677e72enisa_euvd
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