Medium severity · published Jul 26, 2025
CVE-2025-54380
Opencast is a free, open-source platform to support the management of educational audio and video content
6.5
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 37% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
OP
Opencast · Apereo
before 17.6 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-54380
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-54380
Patch
https://github.com/opencast/opencast/commit/e8980435342149375802648b9c9e696c9a5f0c9a
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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