CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-2186
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-02-03
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
The Ansible edxapp role in the Configuration Repo in edX allows remote websites to spoof edX accounts by leveraging use of the string literal "False" instead of a boolean False for the CORS_ORIGIN_ALLOW_ALL setting. Note: this vulnerability was fixed on 2015-03-06, but the version number was not changed.
Affected configurations
• edx configuration (<= 1.0)
• edx edx-platform (<= 1.6.0)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- https://github.com/edx/configuration/pull/1885/files Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://open.edx.org/CVE-2015-2186 Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/edx/configuration/pull/1885/files Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://open.edx.org/CVE-2015-2186 Vendor Advisory