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CVE-2015-6671

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-03-13 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

Open edX edx-platform before 2015-08-25 requires use of the database for storage of SAML SSO secrets, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information by leveraging access to a database backup.

Affected products

• openedx edx-platform: through 2015-08-20

References

• https://github.com/edx/edx-platform/pull/9471
• https://open.edx.org/CVE-2015-6671
• https://github.com/edx/edx-platform/pull/9471
• https://open.edx.org/CVE-2015-6671

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