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. This way, an attacker can, for example, fake a remember-me token, assume the identity of the global system administrator and request non-public content from the search service without ever providing any proper authentication. This problem is fixed in Opencast 7.6 and Opencast 8.1
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published: 2020-01-30T21:25:16

Updated: 2020-01-30T21:25:16

Reserved: 2020-01-02T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2020-5206

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2020-01-30T22:15:10.093

Modified: 2020-02-05T18:30:49.467


Link: CVE-2020-5206

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