Opencast still publishes global system account credentials

CVE Details

Basic Information

Title Opencast still publishes global system account credentials
Type cve
Published 2025-07-26T03:28:25.194Z
Modified 2025-07-26T03:28:25.194Z

Product Information

Vendor opencast
Product opencast
Version < 17.6

CVSS Information

Base Score 6.5 (MEDIUM)
Attack Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected Products

  • opencast opencast < 17.6

Additional Information

CWE List CWE-200, CWE-522
Source GitHub_M

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.

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