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Moodle: duplicating a bigbluebutton activity assigns the same meeting id

Type: advisorySources: OSV

When duplicating a BigBlueButton activity, the original meeting ID was also duplicated instead of using a new ID for the new activity. This could provide unintended access to the original meeting.

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CVEs
CVE-2023-5543
Confirmed fixed CVEs
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8 Nov 2026, 02:32 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

Moodle: duplicating a bigbluebutton activity assigns the same meeting id

core-osv · Original source

Published 9 Nov 2023, 21:35 UTC

When duplicating a BigBlueButton activity, the original meeting ID was also duplicated instead of using a new ID for the new activity. This could provide unintended access to the original meeting.

osv:CVE-2023-5543
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-5543",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "title": "Moodle: duplicating a bigbluebutton activity assigns the same meeting id",
    "summary": "When duplicating a BigBlueButton activity, the original meeting ID was also duplicated instead of using a new ID for the new activity. This could provide unintended access to the original meeting.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2023-5543",
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    "severity": "low",
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
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