CVE-2015-2186

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Summary

CVECVE-2015-2186
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-02-03 15:29:00 UTC
Updated2018-03-02 14:18:00 UTC
DescriptionThe 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-20

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Edx Configuration All All All All
Application Edx Edx-platform All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Update to use for booleans. by feanil · Pull Request #1885 · edx/configuration · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
Security Alert: Bug in Configuration Repo Bypasses CORS Security | Open edX | Open Courseware Development Platform CONFIRM open.edx.org Vendor Advisory
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