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Limited data exposure for shared external videos in BigBlueButton

Type: advisorySources: OSV

BigBlueButton is an open source web conferencing system. Starting in version 2.2 and prior to versions 2.3.18 and 2.4-rc-6, an attacker who is able to obtain the meeting identifier for a meeting on a server can find information related to an external video being shared, like the current timestamp and play/pause. The problem has been patched in versions 2.3.18 and 2.4-rc-6 by modifying the stream to send the data only for users in the meeting. There are currently no known workarounds.

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CVE-2022-29235
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5 Nov 2026, 05:42 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

Limited data exposure for shared external videos in BigBlueButton

core-osv · Original source

Published 1 Jun 2022, 23:25 UTC

BigBlueButton is an open source web conferencing system. Starting in version 2.2 and prior to versions 2.3.18 and 2.4-rc-6, an attacker who is able to obtain the meeting identifier for a meeting on a server can find information related to an external video being shared, like the current timestamp and play/pause. The problem has been patched in versions 2.3.18 and 2.4-rc-6 by modifying the stream to send the data only for users in the meeting. There are currently no known workarounds.

osv:CVE-2022-29235
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-29235",
  "method": "structured",
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    "title": "Limited data exposure for shared external videos 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-rc-6, an attacker who is able to obtain the meeting identifier for a meeting on a server can find information related to an external video being shared, like the current timestamp and play/pause. The problem has been patched in versions 2.3.18 and 2.4-rc-6 by modifying the stream to send the data only for users in the meeting. There are currently no known workarounds.",
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        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/29xxx/CVE-2022-29235.json",
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        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-29235",
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  "published_at": "2022-06-01T23:25:18+00:00"
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