CVE-2015-2186: Edx Configuration

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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: up to and including 1.0
• Edx Edx-Platform: up to and including 1.6.0

Published 2018-02-03. Last modified 2026-06-17.