CVE-2025-54380: Apereo Opencast

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Apereo Opencast: before 17.6 (fixed in 17.6)

Published 2025-07-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.