CVE-2020-12443

Published Apr 29, 2020 CVSS 3.1 · 9.8 Critical EPSS 3.7% KEV · Not listed
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.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2020-4754 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.
History
Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00611}

epss

{'score': 0.00847}

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00464}

epss

{'score': 0.00611}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 4, 2024, 11:56 AM
Reserved
Apr 29, 2020, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Apr 29, 2020, 2:15 AM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 2:51 AM