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CVE-2023-33176
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2023-06-26T20:15:10.063 · Last modified 2026-06-17T06:01:14.283

Summary

BigBlueButton is an open source virtual classroom designed to help teachers teach and learners learn. In affected versions are affected by a Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability. In an `insertDocument` API request the user is able to supply a URL from which the presentation should be downloaded. This URL was being used without having been successfully validated first. An update to the `followRedirect` method in the `PresentationUrlDownloadService` has been made to validate all URLs to be used for presentation download. Two new properties `presentationDownloadSupportedProtocols` and `presentationDownloadBlockedHosts` have also been added to `bigbluebutton.properties` to allow administrators to define what protocols a URL must use and to explicitly define hosts that a presentatio

Affected products

bigbluebutton — bigbluebutton

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