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CVE-2015-2186

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-02-03 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: 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 products

• Edx Configuration: through 1.0
• openedx edx-platform: through 1.6.0

References

• https://github.com/edx/configuration/pull/1885/files
• https://open.edx.org/CVE-2015-2186
• https://github.com/edx/configuration/pull/1885/files
• https://open.edx.org/CVE-2015-2186

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