CVE-2020-28954

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-28954
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-28954.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2020-28954
Published
2020-11-19T22:15:13Z
Modified
2026-10-20T10:53:11Z
Severity
  • 5.3 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

web/controllers/ApiController.groovy in BigBlueButton before 2.2.29 lacks certain parameter sanitization, as demonstrated by accepting control characters in a user name.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
18b75285714bc2eca7a58a0611ff3af267cbd4c7
Fixed
5c911ddeec4493f40f42e2f137800ed4692004a4
Fixed
e59bcd0c33a6a3203c011faa8823ba2cac1e4f37
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "extracted_events":  [
        {
            "cpe":  "cpe:2.3:a:bigbluebutton:bigbluebutton:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "range":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "0"
                },
                {
                    "fixed":  "2.2.29"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "CPE_RANGE"
        },
        {
            "range":  [
                {
                    "fixed":  "5c911ddeec4493f40f42e2f137800ed4692004a4"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
        },
        {
            "range":  [
                {
                    "fixed":  "e59bcd0c33a6a3203c011faa8823ba2cac1e4f37"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

2.*
2.2-beta-10
2.2-beta-11
2.2-beta-12
2.2-beta-14
2.2-beta-15
2.2-beta-16
2.2-beta-17
2.2-beta-2
2.2-beta-3
2.2-beta-4
2.2-beta-5
2.2-beta-6
2.2-beta-7
2.2-beta-8
2.2-beta-9
2.2-rc-4
2.2-rc-5
2.2-rc-6
Other
dcs-2-a
v0.*
v0.8
v0.8b4
v0.8b4.0
v0.8rc2
v0.9.0-beta
v2.*
v2.2.0
v2.2.1
v2.2.10
v2.2.11-good
v2.2.12
v2.2.14
v2.2.15
v2.2.16
v2.2.17
v2.2.18
v2.2.19
v2.2.2
v2.2.20
v2.2.21
v2.2.22
v2.2.23
v2.2.24
v2.2.25
v2.2.26
v2.2.27
v2.2.28
v2.2.3
v2.2.4
v2.2.5
v2.2.6
v2.2.7
v2.2.8
v2.2.9

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-28954.json"