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Vulnerability details: VCID-zqyk-rq9a-eked
Vulnerability ID VCID-zqyk-rq9a-eked
Aliases CVE-2023-22746
GHSA-pr8j-v4c8-h62x
Summary Use of Insufficiently Random Values CKAN is an open-source DMS (data management system) for powering data hubs and data portals. When creating a new container based on one of the Docker images listed below, the same secret key was being used by default. If the users didn't set a custom value via environment variables in the `.env` file, that key was shared across different CKAN instances, making it easy to forge authentication requests. Users overriding the default secret key in their own `.env` file are not affected by this issue. Note that the legacy images (ckan/ckan) located in the main CKAN repo are not affected by this issue. The affected images are ckan/ckan-docker, (ckan/ckan-base images), okfn/docker-ckan (openknowledge/ckan-base and openknowledge/ckan-dev images) keitaroinc/docker-ckan (keitaro/ckan images).
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 0.0
Risk None
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (4)
CWE-1035 OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
CWE-330 Use of Insufficiently Random Values
CWE-937 OWASP Top Ten 2013 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
CWE-344 Use of Invariant Value in Dynamically Changing Context
System Score Found at
epss 0.00374 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2023-22746
cvssv3.1 8.6 https://github.com/ckan/ckan/commit/44af0f0a148fcc0e0fbcf02fe69b7db13459a84b
ssvc Track https://github.com/ckan/ckan/commit/44af0f0a148fcc0e0fbcf02fe69b7db13459a84b
cvssv3.1 8.6 https://github.com/ckan/ckan/commit/4c22c135fa486afa13855d1cdb9765eaf418d2aa
ssvc Track https://github.com/ckan/ckan/commit/4c22c135fa486afa13855d1cdb9765eaf418d2aa
cvssv3.1 8.6 https://github.com/ckan/ckan/security/advisories/GHSA-pr8j-v4c8-h62x
ssvc Track https://github.com/ckan/ckan/security/advisories/GHSA-pr8j-v4c8-h62x
Reference id Reference type URL
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2023-22746
https://github.com/ckan/ckan/commit/44af0f0a148fcc0e0fbcf02fe69b7db13459a84b
https://github.com/ckan/ckan/commit/4c22c135fa486afa13855d1cdb9765eaf418d2aa
CVE-2023-22746 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-22746
GHSA-pr8j-v4c8-h62x https://github.com/ckan/ckan/security/advisories/GHSA-pr8j-v4c8-h62x
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L Found at https://github.com/ckan/ckan/commit/44af0f0a148fcc0e0fbcf02fe69b7db13459a84b
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:Y/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-03-10T20:59:04Z/ Found at https://github.com/ckan/ckan/commit/44af0f0a148fcc0e0fbcf02fe69b7db13459a84b
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L Found at https://github.com/ckan/ckan/commit/4c22c135fa486afa13855d1cdb9765eaf418d2aa
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:Y/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-03-10T20:59:04Z/ Found at https://github.com/ckan/ckan/commit/4c22c135fa486afa13855d1cdb9765eaf418d2aa
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L Found at https://github.com/ckan/ckan/security/advisories/GHSA-pr8j-v4c8-h62x
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

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high

none

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required

unchanged

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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:Y/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-03-10T20:59:04Z/ Found at https://github.com/ckan/ckan/security/advisories/GHSA-pr8j-v4c8-h62x
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.5933
EPSS Score 0.00374
Published At May 30, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-05-30T20:59:39.597033+00:00 GitLab Importer Import https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/pypi/ckan/CVE-2023-22746.yml 38.6.0