# org.opencastproject:opencast-kernel (Maven) vulnerabilities

7 known vulnerabilities (2 high, 4 medium), with the versions each affects and the releases that fix them.

## At a glance

- Latest release: not known (cve.now hasn't read this package's releases)
- Newest unaffected release: not known without release data
- Registry: https://central.sonatype.com/artifact/org.opencastproject/opencast-kernel

## Advisories (7)

### [CVE-2025-54380](https://cve.now/CVE-2025-54380): Opencast still publishes global system account credentials

- Severity: Medium 6.5
- Published: Jul 26, 2025
- Affected: fixed in 17.6.

### [CVE-2021-32623](https://cve.now/CVE-2021-32623): Opencast vulnerable to billion laughs attack (XML bomb)

- Severity: High 8.1
- Published: Jun 15, 2021
- Affected: fixed in 9.6.

### [CVE-2020-26234](https://cve.now/CVE-2020-26234): Disabled Hostname Verification in OpenCast

- Severity: Medium 4.8
- Published: Dec 8, 2020
- Affected: fixed in 7.9; from 8.0, fixed in 8.9.

### [CVE-2020-5206](https://cve.now/CVE-2020-5206): Authentication Bypass For Endpoints With Anonymous Access in OpenCast

- Severity: High 8.7
- Published: Jan 30, 2020
- Affected: fixed in 7.6; from 8.0, fixed in 8.1.

### [CVE-2020-5231](https://cve.now/CVE-2020-5231): Opencast users with ROLE\_COURSE\_ADMIN can create new users

- Severity: Medium 4.8
- Published: Jan 30, 2020
- Affected: fixed in 7.6; from 8.0, fixed in 8.1.

### [CVE-2020-5222](https://cve.now/CVE-2020-5222): Hard-Coded Key Used For Remember-me Token in OpenCast

- Severity: Medium 6.8
- Published: Jan 30, 2020
- Affected: fixed in 7.6; from 8.0, fixed in 8.1.

### [CVE-2017-1000221](https://cve.now/CVE-2017-1000221): In Opencast 2.2.3 and older if user names overlap, the Opencast search service used for publication to the media modules and players will…

- Severity: Unrated
- Published: Nov 17, 2017
- Affected: fixed in 2.2.4.

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