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CVE-2020-12443

CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8 EPSS 3.57% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2020-04-29 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a critical severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 9.8. It affects Nginx. Public exploit code or proof-of-concept references have been detected in its references. It may be remotely exploitable.

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A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.

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CVE
CVE-2020-12443
Severity
CRITICAL
CVSS
9.8
EPSS
3.57%
Nginx

Original NVD Description

BigBlueButton before 2.2.6 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files because the presfilename (lowercase) value can be a .pdf filename while the presFilename (mixed case) value has a ../ sequence. This can be leveraged for privilege escalation via a directory traversal to bigbluebutton.properties. NOTE: this issue exists because of an ineffective mitigation to CVE-2020-12112 in which there was an attempted fix within an NGINX configuration file, without considering that the relevant part of NGINX is case-insensitive.

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