CVE-2020-28954 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

web/controllers/ApiController.groovy in BigBlueButton before 2.2.29 lacks certain parameter sanitization, as demonstrated by accepting control characters in a user name.

Published: 2020-11-19

Score: 5.3 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:bigbluebutton:bigbluebutton:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2020-21340	web/controllers/ApiController.groovy in BigBlueButton before 2.2.29 lacks certain parameter sanitization, as demonstrated by accepting control characters in a user name.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00383.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/commit/5c911ddeec4493f40f42e2f137800ed4692004a4
https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/commit/e59bcd0c33a6a3203c011faa8823ba2cac1e4f37
https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/compare/v2.2.28...v2.2.29
https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/issues/10818

History

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Subscriptions

Bigbluebutton Bigbluebutton

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2020-11-19T21:14:53.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-04T16:48:01.578Z

Reserved: 2020-11-19T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2020-28954

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2020-11-19T22:15:13.757

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:23:22.510

Link: CVE-2020-28954

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-116

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