# CVE-2023-22746

## Summary

- **CVE ID:** CVE-2023-22746
- **Severity:** HIGH
- **CVSS Score:** 8.6 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L)
- **CWE:** CWE-344, CWE-330
- **Published:** Feb 3, 2023
- **Last Modified:** Mar 13, 2026

## 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).

## Affected Products

- ckan — ckan (>= 2.9.0, < 2.9.7)
- ckan — ckan (< 2.8.12)

## References

- [CNA](https://github.com/ckan/ckan/security/advisories/GHSA-pr8j-v4c8-h62x)
- [CNA](https://github.com/ckan/ckan/commit/44af0f0a148fcc0e0fbcf02fe69b7db13459a84b)
- [CNA](https://github.com/ckan/ckan/commit/4c22c135fa486afa13855d1cdb9765eaf418d2aa)

## Exploitation Prediction (EPSS)

- **EPSS Score:** 0.37%
- **EPSS Percentile:** 58.6

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_Exported from OnDuty AI Vulnerability Intelligence on 2026-09-11._