{"id":"CVE-2023-22746","aliases":["EUVD-2023-26864","GHSA-pr8j-v4c8-h62x"],"status":"published","title":"CKAN is vulnerable to session secret shared across instances using Docker images","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)\nkeitaroinc/docker-ckan (keitaro/ckan images).","severity":{"version":"3.1","score":8.6,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L","level":"high","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-10","score":0.00693,"percentile":0.53234,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-330","CWE-344"],"published":"2023-02-03T21:07:11Z","modified":"2026-10-28T02:30:54Z","products":[{"vendor":"ckan","product":"ckan"},{"vendor":"okfn","product":"ckan"}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/ckan/ckan/security/advisories/GHSA-pr8j-v4c8-h62x","tags":["x_refsource_CONFIRM","x_transferred","Third Party Advisory","advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/ckan/ckan/commit/44af0f0a148fcc0e0fbcf02fe69b7db13459a84b","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","x_transferred","Patch","fix"]},{"url":"https://github.com/ckan/ckan/commit/4c22c135fa486afa13855d1cdb9765eaf418d2aa","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","x_transferred","Patch","fix"]},{"url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/22xxx/CVE-2023-22746.json","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-22746","tags":["advisory"]}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2023-22746","title":"CKAN is vulnerable to session secret shared across instances using Docker images","description":"CKAN is an open-source DMS (data management system) for powering data hubs and data portals. 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The affected images are ckan/ckan-docker, (ckan/ckan-base images), okfn/docker-ckan (openknowledge/ckan-base and openknowledge/ckan-dev images)\nkeitaroinc/docker-ckan (keitaro/ckan images).\n","status":"published","published":"2023-02-03T21:07:11.551Z","modified":"2025-03-10T21:16:37.925Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":8.6,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L","level":"high","assessor":"cna"}],"cwes":["CWE-344","CWE-330"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:35:16.126506Z"}],"euvd":[{"id":"EUVD-2023-26864","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)\nkeitaroinc/docker-ckan (keitaro/ckan images).\n","status":"published","published":"2023-02-03T21:07:11Z","modified":"2025-03-10T21:16:37Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":8.6,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L","level":"high"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T20:53:09.197707Z"}],"nvd":[{"id":"CVE-2023-22746","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)\nkeitaroinc/docker-ckan (keitaro/ckan images).\n","status":"published","published":"2023-02-03T22:15:11.733Z","modified":"2026-06-17T05:36:05.23Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":8.6,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L","level":"high","assessor":"secondary"},{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","level":"high","assessor":"primary"}],"cwes":["CWE-330","CWE-344"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:07:46.064662Z"}],"osv":[{"id":"CVE-2023-22746","title":"CKAN is vulnerable to session secret shared across instances using Docker images","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)\nkeitaroinc/docker-ckan (keitaro/ckan images).\n","status":"published","published":"2023-02-03T21:07:11.551Z","modified":"2026-10-28T02:30:54.854696461Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":8.6,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L","level":"high"}],"cwes":["CWE-330","CWE-344"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:44:30.334753Z"}]}}