CVE-2024-52797

6.5 · MEDIUM

Published Nov 21, 2024 apereo CWE-770 EPSS 0.92% (58th pctl) CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Overview

CVE-2024-52797 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting apereo opencast. It was published on November 21, 2024 and has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 6.5 (MEDIUM).

This vulnerability has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 6.5, rated MEDIUM. It can be exploited remotely over the network. Some level of privileges is required for exploitation.

Technical Description

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 search queries. From Opencast version 11.4 and newer, Elasticsearch queries are retried a configurable number of times in the case of error to handle temporary losses of connection to Elasticsearch. These invalid queries would fail, causing the retry mechanism to begin requerying with the same syntactically invalid query immediately, in an infinite loop. This causes a massive increase in log size which can in some cases cause a denial of service due to disk exhaustion.

Opencast 13.10 and Opencast 14.3 contain patches which address the base issue, with Opencast 16.7 containing changes which harmonize the search behaviour between the admin UI and external API. Users are strongly recommended to upgrade as soon as possible if running ver

Remediation

Check the references section for vendor advisories and patches from apereo. Update opencast to the latest patched version. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions	Status
apereo	opencast	>= 11.4, < 13.10	Affected

References

GitHub github.com/opencast/opencast/commit/3d5ebd163674eb18e070f52b64a18f92188f98c3 GitHub github.com/opencast/opencast/pull/5033 GitHub github.com/opencast/opencast/pull/5150 GitHub github.com/opencast/opencast/security/advisories/GHSA-jh6x-7xfg-9cq2

Frequently Asked Questions

What is CVE-2024-52797?

CVE-2024-52797 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting apereo opencast. It was published on November 21, 2024 and has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 6.5 (MEDIUM).

How severe is CVE-2024-52797?

This vulnerability has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 6.5, rated MEDIUM. It can be exploited remotely over the network. Some level of privileges is required for exploitation.

How do I fix or remediate CVE-2024-52797?

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