Disabled Hostname Verification in OpenCast
CVE-2020-26234

4.8MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor
Opencast
Status
Opencast
Vendor
CVE Published:
8 December 2020

Summary

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 for the host. Disabling it can allow for man-in-the-middle attacks. This problem is fixed in Opencast 7.9 and Opencast 8.8 Please be aware that fixing the problem means that Opencast will not simply accept any self-signed certificates any longer without properly importing them. If you need those, please make sure to import them into the Java key store. Better yet, get a valid certificate.

Affected Version(s)

opencast < 7.9 < 7.9

opencast >= 8.0, < 8.9 < 8.0, 8.9

References

https://github.com/opencast/opencast/security/advisories/...
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https://github.com/opencast/opencast/commit/4225bf90af745...
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
4.8
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
High
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
High
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
Required
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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