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Vulnerability record · CVE-2023-22746 · published 3 February 2023

CVE-2023-22746: Okfn ckan vulnerability

Okfn · Ckan

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).

7.5 CVSS 3.1 High EPSS 0.69% · top 49.0% CWE-330 · CWE-330CWE-344 · CWE-344
7.5CVSS 3.1 base score
0.69%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
1Affected product versions listed by NVD
6References
17 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

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).

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected products

1 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

References

LinkTags
https://github.com/ckan/ckan/commit/44af0f0a148fcc0e0fbcf02fe69b7db13459a84b Patch
https://github.com/ckan/ckan/commit/4c22c135fa486afa13855d1cdb9765eaf418d2aa Patch
https://github.com/ckan/ckan/security/advisories/GHSA-pr8j-v4c8-h62x Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/ckan/ckan/commit/44af0f0a148fcc0e0fbcf02fe69b7db13459a84b Patch
https://github.com/ckan/ckan/commit/4c22c135fa486afa13855d1cdb9765eaf418d2aa Patch
https://github.com/ckan/ckan/security/advisories/GHSA-pr8j-v4c8-h62x Third Party Advisory

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2023-22746), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-27). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.