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Opencast still publishes global system account credentials

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Jul 25, 2025 in opencast/opencast • Updated Jul 28, 2025

Package

maven org.opencastproject:opencast-common (Maven)

Affected versions

< 17.6

Patched versions

17.6
maven org.opencastproject:opencast-ingest-service-impl (Maven)
< 17.6
17.6
maven org.opencastproject:opencast-kernel (Maven)
< 17.6
17.6
maven org.opencastproject:opencast-publication-service-oaipmh-remote (Maven)
< 17.6
17.6

Description

Description

Opencast prior to versions 17.6 would incorrectly send the hashed global system account credentials (ie: org.opencastproject.security.digest.user and org.opencastproject.security.digest.pass) when attempting to fetch mediapackage elements included in a mediapackage XML file. A previous CVE prevented many cases where the credentials were inappropriately sent, but not all. The remainder are addressed with this patch.

Impact

Anyone with ingest permissions could cause Opencast to send its hashed global system account credentials to a url of their choosing.

Patches

This issue is fixed in Opencast 17.6

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References

@gregorydlogan gregorydlogan published to opencast/opencast Jul 25, 2025
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jul 25, 2025
Reviewed Jul 25, 2025
Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jul 26, 2025
Last updated Jul 28, 2025

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(4th percentile)

Weaknesses

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2025-54380

GHSA ID

GHSA-j63h-hmgw-x4j7

Source code

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