CVE Vulnerability

CVE-2022-29169

BigBlueButton is an open source web conferencing system. Versions starting with 2.2 and prior to 2.3.19, 2.4.7, and 2.5.0-beta.2 are vulnerable to regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) attacks. By using specific a RegularExpression, an attacker can cause denial of service for the bbb-html5 service. The useragent library performs checking of device by parsing the input of User-Agent header and lets it go through lookupUserAgent() (alias of useragent.lookup() ). This function handles input by regexing and attackers can abuse that by providing some ReDos payload using `SmartWatch`. The maintainers removed `htmlclient/useragent` from versions 2.3.19, 2.4.7, and 2.5.0-beta.2. As a workaround, disable NginX forwarding the requests to the handler according to the directions in the GitHub Security Advisory.

5 /10

CVSS v2.0 :

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 10 / Impact : 2.9

Attack Vector

Attack Complexity

Privileges Required

User Interaction

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact PARTIAL

Scope

7.5 /10

CVSS v3.0 : HIGH

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 3.6

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References
Link Resource
https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/pull/14896 Patch Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/security/advisories/GHSA-rwrv-p665-4vwp Mitigation Patch
https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/pull/14886 Patch Third Party Advisory
Configurations

Configuration 1

cpe:2.3:a:bigbluebutton:bigbluebutton:2.5:alpha1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:bigbluebutton:bigbluebutton:2.5:beta1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:bigbluebutton:bigbluebutton:2.5:alpha6:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:bigbluebutton:bigbluebutton:2.5:alpha5:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:bigbluebutton:bigbluebutton:2.5:alpha4:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:bigbluebutton:bigbluebutton:2.5:alpha3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:bigbluebutton:bigbluebutton:2.5:alpha2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:bigbluebutton:bigbluebutton:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:bigbluebutton:bigbluebutton:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Information

Published : 2022-06-01 11:15

Updated : 2022-06-09 12:57

NVD link : CVE-2022-29169

Mitre link : CVE-2022-29169

Products Affected
No products.
CWE
CWE-20