CVE-2020-26234

Summary

CVECVE-2020-26234
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-12-08 23:15:00 UTC
Updated2020-12-10 20:57:00 UTC
DescriptionOpencast 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-346

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Apereo Opencast All All All All
Application Apereo Opencast All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Re-Enable Hostname Verification · opencast/opencast@4225bf9 · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
Disabled Hostname Verification · Advisory · opencast/opencast · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 980399 Java (maven) Security Update for org.opencastproject:opencast-kernel (GHSA-44cw-p2hm-gpf6)
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