CVE-2022-29234 (GCVE-0-2022-29234)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-06-01 23:20 – Updated: 2025-04-23 18:20
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Grace period for lock settings in public/private chats in BigBlueButton
Summary
BigBlueButton is an open source web conferencing system. Starting in version 2.2 and prior to versions 2.3.18 and 2.4.1, an attacker could send messages to a locked chat within a grace period of 5s any lock setting in the meeting was changed. The attacker needs to be a participant in the meeting. Versions 2.3.18 and 2.4.1 contain a patch for this issue. There are currently no known workarounds.
Severity
4.3 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-04-23 14:06 UTC
CWE
- CWE-285 - Improper Authorization
Assigner
References
5 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/se… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/pu… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/pu… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/re… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/re… | x_refsource_MISC |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| bigbluebutton | bigbluebutton |
Affected:
>= 2.2, < 2.3.18
Affected: >= 2.4, < 2.4.1 |
guessed |
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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