{"id":"CVE-2017-18381","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2017-18381","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T21:30:51.783Z","title":"The installation process in Open edX before 2017-01-10 exposes a MongoDB instance to external connections with default credentials.","description":"The installation process in Open edX before 2017-01-10 exposes a MongoDB instance to external connections with default credentials.","published":"2019-07-30T19:15:12.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:12:44.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.2,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":[],"affected":["edx/edx-platform"],"epss":{"score":0.01165,"percentile":0.67149,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.17%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/openedx-announce/jRXyo1HJzNk","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/openedx-announce/mpyyx34LWSY","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/openedx-announce/jRXyo1HJzNk","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/openedx-announce/mpyyx34LWSY","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-18381","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}