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Moderate severityNVD Advisory· Published Jan 30, 2020· Updated Aug 4, 2024

Opencast uses unsafe identifiers

CVE-2020-5230

Description

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 being able to escape working directories and write files to other locations. In addition, Opencast's Id.toString(…) vs Id.compact(…) behavior, the latter trying to mitigate some of the file system problems, can cause errors due to identifier mismatch since an identifier may unintentionally change. This issue is fixed in Opencast 7.6 and 8.1.

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Affected packages

Versions sourced from the GitHub Security Advisory.

PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
org.opencastproject:baseMaven
< 7.67.6
org.opencastproject:baseMaven
>= 8.0, < 8.18.1

Affected products

2

Patches

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