CVE-2015-2186

HIGH 7.5CVE-2015-2186 · Published 03/02/2018 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2015-2186 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting configuration (edx), edx-platform (edx).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.1%, higher than 65.9% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
configuration edx	`≤ 1.0`	No fix yet
edx-platform edx	`≤ 1.6.0`	No fix yet

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.

References

edx/configuration#1885 · Patch
open.edx.org/CVE-2015-2186 · Vendor Advisory

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