Vulnerability Details 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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.006
EPSS Ranking 69.0%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 7.5
CVSS v2 Score 5.0
References
- https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/pull/14886
- https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/pull/14896
- https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/security/advisories/GHSA-rwrv-p665-4vwp
- https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/pull/14886
- https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/pull/14896
- https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/security/advisories/GHSA-rwrv-p665-4vwp
Products affected by CVE-2022-29169
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cpe:2.3:a:bigbluebutton:bigbluebutton:2.2.0
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cpe:2.3:a:bigbluebutton:bigbluebutton:2.2.1
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cpe:2.3:a:bigbluebutton:bigbluebutton:2.2.10
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cpe:2.3:a:bigbluebutton:bigbluebutton:2.2.11
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cpe:2.3:a:bigbluebutton:bigbluebutton:2.2.12
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cpe:2.3:a:bigbluebutton:bigbluebutton:2.2.14
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cpe:2.3:a:bigbluebutton:bigbluebutton:2.2.15
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cpe:2.3:a:bigbluebutton:bigbluebutton:2.2.16
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cpe:2.3:a:bigbluebutton:bigbluebutton:2.2.17
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cpe:2.3:a:bigbluebutton:bigbluebutton:2.2.18
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cpe:2.3:a:bigbluebutton:bigbluebutton:2.2.19
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cpe:2.3:a:bigbluebutton:bigbluebutton:2.2.2
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cpe:2.3:a:bigbluebutton:bigbluebutton:2.2.20
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cpe:2.3:a:bigbluebutton:bigbluebutton:2.2.21
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cpe:2.3:a:bigbluebutton:bigbluebutton:2.2.22
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cpe:2.3:a:bigbluebutton:bigbluebutton:2.2.23
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cpe:2.3:a:bigbluebutton:bigbluebutton:2.2.24
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cpe:2.3:a:bigbluebutton:bigbluebutton:2.2.25
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cpe:2.3:a:bigbluebutton:bigbluebutton:2.2.26
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cpe:2.3:a:bigbluebutton:bigbluebutton:2.2.27
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cpe:2.3:a:bigbluebutton:bigbluebutton:2.2.28
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cpe:2.3:a:bigbluebutton:bigbluebutton:2.2.29
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cpe:2.3:a:bigbluebutton:bigbluebutton:2.2.3
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cpe:2.3:a:bigbluebutton:bigbluebutton:2.2.30
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cpe:2.3:a:bigbluebutton:bigbluebutton:2.2.31
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cpe:2.3:a:bigbluebutton:bigbluebutton:2.2.4
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cpe:2.3:a:bigbluebutton:bigbluebutton:2.2.5
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cpe:2.3:a:bigbluebutton:bigbluebutton:2.2.6
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cpe:2.3:a:bigbluebutton:bigbluebutton:2.2.7
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cpe:2.3:a:bigbluebutton:bigbluebutton:2.2.8
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cpe:2.3:a:bigbluebutton:bigbluebutton:2.2.9
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cpe:2.3:a:bigbluebutton:bigbluebutton:2.3
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cpe:2.3:a:bigbluebutton:bigbluebutton:2.3.0
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cpe:2.3:a:bigbluebutton:bigbluebutton:2.3.1
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cpe:2.3:a:bigbluebutton:bigbluebutton:2.3.10
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cpe:2.3:a:bigbluebutton:bigbluebutton:2.3.11
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cpe:2.3:a:bigbluebutton:bigbluebutton:2.3.12
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cpe:2.3:a:bigbluebutton:bigbluebutton:2.3.13
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cpe:2.3:a:bigbluebutton:bigbluebutton:2.3.14
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cpe:2.3:a:bigbluebutton:bigbluebutton:2.3.15
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cpe:2.3:a:bigbluebutton:bigbluebutton:2.3.16
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cpe:2.3:a:bigbluebutton:bigbluebutton:2.3.17
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cpe:2.3:a:bigbluebutton:bigbluebutton:2.3.2
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cpe:2.3:a:bigbluebutton:bigbluebutton:2.3.3
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cpe:2.3:a:bigbluebutton:bigbluebutton:2.3.4
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cpe:2.3:a:bigbluebutton:bigbluebutton:2.3.5
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cpe:2.3:a:bigbluebutton:bigbluebutton:2.3.6
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cpe:2.3:a:bigbluebutton:bigbluebutton:2.3.7
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cpe:2.3:a:bigbluebutton:bigbluebutton:2.3.8
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cpe:2.3:a:bigbluebutton:bigbluebutton:2.3.9
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cpe:2.3:a:bigbluebutton:bigbluebutton:2.4.0
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cpe:2.3:a:bigbluebutton:bigbluebutton:2.4.1
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cpe:2.3:a:bigbluebutton:bigbluebutton:2.4.2
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cpe:2.3:a:bigbluebutton:bigbluebutton:2.4.3
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cpe:2.3:a:bigbluebutton:bigbluebutton:2.4.4
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cpe:2.3:a:bigbluebutton:bigbluebutton:2.4.5
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cpe:2.3:a:bigbluebutton:bigbluebutton:2.4.6
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cpe:2.3:a:bigbluebutton:bigbluebutton:2.5