What is CVE-2015-2286?

CVE-2015-2286 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Edx Open, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2016-03-19.

How severe is CVE-2015-2286?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Information disclosure in Edx Open

CVE-2015-2286

lms/templates/footer-edx-new.html in Open edX edx-platform before 2015-01-29 does not properly restrict links on the password-reset page, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to discover password-reset tokens by reading a referer log after a victim navigates from this page to a social-sharing site.

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

EPSS: 0.020 (79.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Edx Open_edx
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-200 — Information Disclosure

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2015-2286?: CVE-2015-2286 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Edx Open, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2016-03-19.
How severe is CVE-2015-2286?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.