🛡️ CVE-2025-54380 — opencast

🟡 CVSS 6.5 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-200 NVD
6.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Opencast still publishes global system account credentials

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](https://github.com/opencast/opencast/security/advisories/GHSA-hcxx-mp6g-6gr9) 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

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:

  • Open an issue in our [issue tracker](https://github.com/opencast/opencast/issues)
  • Email us at [email protected]

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity none, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-54380 is classified as CWE-200: Exposure of Sensitive Information. Information that should stay internal is disclosed to someone who is not authorised to see it.

Affected software

CVE-2025-54380 is recorded against 5 packages.

  • opencast (fixed in 17.6)
  • org.opencastproject:opencast-common (fixed in 17.6)
  • org.opencastproject:opencast-ingest-service-impl (fixed in 17.6)
  • org.opencastproject:opencast-kernel (fixed in 17.6)
  • org.opencastproject:opencast-publication-service-oaipmh-remote (fixed in 17.6)

Timeline and source

Published on 26 July 2025 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

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Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 6.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-200
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2025-07-26
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-06-17

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
opencast — 17.6
org.opencastproject:opencast-common — 17.6
org.opencastproject:opencast-ingest-service-impl — 17.6
org.opencastproject:opencast-kernel — 17.6
org.opencastproject:opencast-publication-service-oaipmh-remote — 17.6

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