CVE-2025-54380

Opencast still publishes global system account credentials

State: Published
Severity: 6.5 Medium
Published: Jul 26, 2025
Updated: Jul 28, 2025
Reserved: Jul 21, 2025

Description

Opencast is a free, open-source platform to support the management of educational audio and video content. Prior to version 17.6, Opencast 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. Anyone with ingest permissions could cause Opencast to send its hashed global system account credentials to a url of their choosing. This issue is fixed in Opencast 17.6.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CWE-522 Insufficiently Protected Credentials

Affected Products

Product	Versions
opencastopencast	< 17.6Affected

References

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