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CVE-2025-61602

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Description

BigBlueButton is an open-source virtual classroom. A denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability in versions prior to 3.0.13 allows any authenticated user to crash the chat functionality for all participants in a meeting by sending a malformed `reactionEmojiId` in the GraphQL mutation `chatSendMessageReaction`. Version 3.0.13 contains a patch. No known workarounds are available.

Severity
HIGH
CVSS score
7.5 (v3.1)
Vulnerability status
Analyzed
Source identifier
Published
2025-10-09 21:15:39.640000
Last modified
2026-10-19 16:10:00.260000
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  "lastModified": "2026-10-19T16:10:00.260",
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