CVE-2025-54380
Opencast still publishes global system account credentials
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- 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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 5 days later
· 5 days later
Published
- 2 days later
· 2 days later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.43% · top 63% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Weakness
Affected products
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.opencastproject:opencast-commonGHSA-j63h-hmgw-x4j7 (opens in a new tab)
- Mavenorg.opencastproject:opencast-ingest-service-implGHSA-j63h-hmgw-x4j7 (opens in a new tab)
- Mavenorg.opencastproject:opencast-kernelGHSA-j63h-hmgw-x4j7 (opens in a new tab)
- Mavenorg.opencastproject:opencast-publication-service-oaipmh-remoteGHSA-j63h-hmgw-x4j7 (opens in a new tab)
References (3)
- https://github.com/opencast/opencast/security/advisories/GHSA-j63h-hmgw-x4j7 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://github.com/opencast/opencast/security/advisories/GHSA-hcxx-mp6g-6gr9 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/opencast/opencast/commit/e8980435342149375802648b9c9e696c9a5f0c9a (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-j63h-hmgw-x4j7 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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