Critical severity · published Apr 29, 2020
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)…
9.8
CVSS
3.7%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)3.7% · higher than 90% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
BI
Bigbluebutton · Bigbluebutton
before 2.2.6 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-12443
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-12443
Patch
https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/pull/9259/commits/b21ca8355a57286a1e6df96984b3a4c57679a463
Exploit
https://github.com/mclab-hbrs/BBB-POC
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