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CVE-2015-5601

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-07-29 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-434

Description

edx-platform before 2015-07-20 allows code execution by privileged users because the course import endpoint mishandles .tar.gz files.

Affected products

• openedx edx-platform: before 2015-07-20 — fixed in 2015-07-20

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: openedx edx-platform 2015-07-20. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://open.edx.org/announcements/CVE-2015-5601
• https://open.edx.org/announcements/CVE-2015-5601

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