PT-2016-3597 · Edx · Edx-Platform

Published 2016-03-19 · Updated 2016-03-22 · CVE-2015-2286

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions edx-platform versions prior to 2015-01-29

Description The issue concerns a problem with the password-reset page, where links are not properly restricted. This allows attackers to discover password-reset tokens by reading a referer log after a victim navigates from the password-reset page to a social-sharing site.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2015-01-29, update to a version released after 2015-01-29 to resolve the issue.

Fix

Information Disclosure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

Related Identifiers

CVE-2015-2286

Affected Products

Edx-Platform

References · 3

• https://open.edx.org/CVE-2015-2286 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-2286 · Security Note
• https://github.com/edx/edx-platform/commit/a1ffcc52594b1e7240501aab0ea145f1da3edb5a · Note