CVE-2015-2186

CVSS V2 Medium 5 CVSS V3 High 7.5
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.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2015-2186
  • Assigner
  • cve@mitre.org
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2018-02-03T15:29:00
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2018-03-02T14:18:23
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-20 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/20.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:edx:configuration:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 1.0
cpe:2.3:a:edx:edx-platform:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 1.6.0
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Integrity Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Availability Impact
  • NONE
  • Base Score
  • 5
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 10
  • Impact Score
  • 2.9
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.0
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
  • Attack Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • NONE
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • NONE
  • Base Score
  • 7.5
  • Base Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 3.9
  • Impact Score
  • 3.6
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://open.edx.org/CVE-2015-2186 Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/edx/configuration/pull/1885/files Patch Third Party Advisory
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-2186
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2186
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 18:48:00 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-03 01:43:54 2018-02-03T15:29Z 2018-02-03T15:29:00 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-03 01:43:54 2018-03-02T14:18:23 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-03 01:43:54 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated