What is CVE-2015-2186?

CVE-2015-2186 is a high-severity vulnerability in Edx Configuration, classified under Improper Input Validation. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2018-02-03.

How severe is CVE-2015-2186?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Improper input validation in Edx Configuration

CVE-2015-2186

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.

Vulnerability class: Drupalgeddon 2 (CVE-2018-7600)

Published 2018-02-03 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.011 (64.6th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 65th percentile — 64.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.011 · newest: 0.011 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation

References

open.edx.org/CVE-2015-2186 (Vendor Advisory)
github.com/edx/configuration/pull/1885/files (Patch, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2015-2186?: CVE-2015-2186 is a high-severity vulnerability in Edx Configuration, classified under Improper Input Validation. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2018-02-03.
How severe is CVE-2015-2186?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.