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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2020-29043

High
7.5/10

Summary

An issue was discovered in BigBlueButton through 2.2.29. When at attacker is able to view an account_activations/edit?token= URI, the attacker can create an approved user account associated with an email address that has an arbitrary domain name.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE

CWE-200 - Information Exposure

An information exposure vulnerability is categorized as an information flow (IF) weakness, which can potentially allow unauthorized access to otherwise classified information in the application, such as confidential personal information (demographics, financials, health records, etc.), business secrets, and the application's internal environment.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published