CVE-2025-54380

low-risk

Published 2025-07-26

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.

Do I need to act?

0.06% chance of exploitation

EPSS score — low exploit probability

Not on CISA KEV list

No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA

Patch status unknown

Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance

CVSS 6.5/10 Medium

NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (1)

Opencast

Affected Vendors

Apereo

References (3)

Patch https://github.com/opencast/opencast/commit/e8980435342149375802648b9c9e696c9a5f...

Not Applicable https://github.com/opencast/opencast/security/advisories/GHSA-hcxx-mp6g-6gr9

Vendor Advisory https://github.com/opencast/opencast/security/advisories/GHSA-j63h-hmgw-x4j7

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low-risk

Severity 24/34 · High

Exploitability 0/34 · Minimal

Exposure 5/34 · Minimal