# CVE-2025-54380: Opencast still publishes global system account credentials

- Also known as: GHSA-J63H-HMGW-X4J7
- Severity: CVSS 6.5 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 17.6
- Published: 2025-07-26 · Updated: 2025-07-28

## Affected

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

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on opencast, org.opencastproject:opencast-common, org.opencastproject:opencast-ingest-service-impl or the other affected packages, upgrade to a fixed version (17.6) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/opencast/opencast/security/advisories/GHSA-j63h-hmgw-x4j7
- https://github.com/opencast/opencast/security/advisories/GHSA-hcxx-mp6g-6gr9
- https://github.com/opencast/opencast/commit/e8980435342149375802648b9c9e696c9a5f0c9a

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