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  • High 8.7

    Paella Player: Stored XSS via caption cue text

    Paella Player is a set of libraries to create a multi stream video player. Prior to Paella Player 2.12.11 (as used in Opencast prior to 19.7 and 20.2), there is a potential XSS attack though closed captions cue text. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.12.11.

  • High 8.8

    Opencast: Session fixation in login enables account takeover via crafted link

    Opencast is a free, open-source platform to support the management of educational audio and video content. Prior to versions 19.7 and 20.2, the default security configuration in etc/security/mh_default_org.xml accepts a client-selected JSESSIONID from the ;js…

  • Low 2.3

    Opencast's editor accidentally publishes videos/overwrites publications #1626

    Opencast is a free, open-source platform to support the management of educational audio and video content. Prior to Opencast 17.8 and 18.2, in some situations, Opencast's editor may publish a video without notifying the user. This may lead to users accidental…

  • Medium 5.1

    Opencast Paella Player 7 vulnerable to Cross-Site-Scripting

    Opencast is a free, open-source platform to support the management of educational audio and video content. Prior to Opencast 17.8 and 18.2, the paella would include and render some user inputs (metadata like title, description, etc.) unfiltered and unmodified…

  • Low 2.7

    Opencast has a partial path traversal vulnerability in UI config

    Opencast is a free, open-source platform to support the management of educational audio and video content. In version 18.0 and versions before 17.7, the protections against path traversal attacks in the UI config module are insufficient, still partially allow…

  • Medium 6.5

    Opencast still publishes global system account credentials

    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 or…

  • Medium 6.5

    Searching Opencast may cause a denial of service

    Opencast is free and open source software for automated video capture and distribution. First noticed in Opencast 13 and 14, Opencast's Elasticsearch integration may generate syntactically invalid Elasticsearch queries in relation to previously acceptable sea…

  • Medium 5.7

    Opencast Authenticated OpenRedirect Vulnerability

    Opencast is a free, open-source platform to support the management of educational audio and video content. Prior to Opencast 12.5, Opencast's Paella authentication page could be used to redirect to an arbitrary URL for authenticated users. The vulnerability a…

  • Medium 5.4

    Limited Authentication Bypass for Media Files in Opencast

    Opencast is a free and open source solution for automated video capture and distribution at scale. Prior to Opencast 10.14 and 11.7, users could pass along URLs for files belonging to organizations other than the user's own, which Opencast would then import i…

  • Critical 9.9
    CVE-2021-43821 Public exploit

    Files Accessible to External Parties in Opencast

    Opencast is an Open Source Lecture Capture & Video Management for Education. Opencast before version 9.10 or 10.6 allows references to local file URLs in ingested media packages, allowing attackers to include local files from Opencast's host machines and maki…

  • High 7.5

    HTTP Method Spoofing in Opencast

    Opencast is an Open Source Lecture Capture & Video Management for Education. Opencast versions prior to 9.10 allow HTTP method spoofing, allowing to change the assumed HTTP method via URL parameter. This allows attackers to turn HTTP GET requests into PUT req…

  • High 8.1

    Opencast vulnerable to billion laughs attack (XML bomb)

    Opencast is a free and open source solution for automated video capture and distribution. Versions of Opencast prior to 9.6 are vulnerable to the billion laughs attack, which allows an attacker to easily execute a (seemingly permanent) denial of service attac…

  • Medium 5.4

    Removing access may not effect published series

    Opencast is a free, open-source platform to support the management of educational audio and video content. In Opencast before version 9.2 there is a vulnerability in which publishing an episode with strict access rules will overwrite the currently set series …

  • Medium 4.8

    Disabled Hostname Verification in OpenCast

    Opencast before versions 8.9 and 7.9 disables HTTPS hostname verification of its HTTP client used for a large portion of Opencast's HTTP requests. Hostname verification is an important part when using HTTPS to ensure that the presented certificate is valid fo…

  • High 8.7

    Authentication Bypass For Endpoints With Anonymous Access in OpenCast

    In Opencast before 7.6 and 8.1, using a remember-me cookie with an arbitrary username can cause Opencast to assume proper authentication for that user even if the remember-me cookie was incorrect given that the attacked endpoint also allows anonymous access. …

  • Medium 4.8

    Opencast users with ROLE_COURSE_ADMIN can create new users

    In Opencast before 7.6 and 8.1, users with the role ROLE_COURSE_ADMIN can use the user-utils endpoint to create new users not including the role ROLE_ADMIN. ROLE_COURSE_ADMIN is a non-standard role in Opencast which is referenced neither in the documentation …

  • High 7.7

    Opencast uses unsafe identifiers

    Opencast before 8.1 and 7.6 allows almost arbitrary identifiers for media packages and elements to be used. This can be problematic for operation and security since such identifiers are sometimes used for file system operations which may lead to an attacker b…

  • Medium 6.8

    Hard-Coded Key Used For Remember-me Token in OpenCast

    Opencast before 7.6 and 8.1 enables a remember-me cookie based on a hash created from the username, password, and an additional system key. This means that an attacker getting access to a remember-me token for one server can get access to all servers which al…

  • High 7.7

    Opencast stores passwords using outdated MD5 hash algorithm

    Opencast before 8.1 stores passwords using the rather outdated and cryptographically insecure MD5 hash algorithm. Furthermore, the hashes are salted using the username instead of a random salt, causing hashes for users with the same username and password to c…

  • High 7.6

    Opencast allows unauthorized public access via OAI-PMH

    Opencast before 8.1 and 7.6 allows unauthorized public access to all media and metadata by default via OAI-PMH. OAI-PMH is part of the default workflow and is activated by default, requiring active user intervention of users to protect media. This leads to us…