CVE-2022-41963 — BigBlueButton is an open source web conferencing system

BigBlueButton is an open source web conferencing system. Versions prior to 2.4.3 contain a whiteboard grace period that exists to handle delayed messages, but this grace period could be used by attackers to take actions in the few seconds after their access is revoked. The attack

01What is this vulnerability?

BigBlueButton is an open source web conferencing system. Versions prior to 2.4.3 contain a whiteboard grace period that exists to handle delayed messages, but this grace period could be used by attackers to take actions in the few seconds after their access is revoked. The attacker must be a meeting participant. This issue is patched in version 2.4.3 an version 2.5-alpha-1

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
bigbluebutton	bigbluebutton	< 2.4.3

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2022-12-16T13:00:42.459Z
• Last modified: 2025-04-17T15:35:44.332Z

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/security/advisories/GHSA-v6p9-926…
• github.com — https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/releases/tag/v2.4.3