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.

Score

CVSS 3.0 6.5 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2016-03-19

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-200

Affected products

• Open Edx (Edx)

References

• https://github.com/edx/edx-platform/commit/a1ffcc52594b1e7240501aab0ea145f1da3edb5a
• https://open.edx.org/CVE-2015-2286