diff --git a/cms/static/js/views/course_info_helper.js b/cms/static/js/views/course_info_helper.js
index 1eaaa57eb5..2a77d7fc98 100644
--- a/cms/static/js/views/course_info_helper.js
+++ b/cms/static/js/views/course_info_helper.js
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ define(['codemirror', 'js/utils/handle_iframe_binding', 'utility'],
     function(CodeMirror, IframeBinding) {
         var editWithCodeMirror = function(model, contentName, baseAssetUrl, textArea) {
             var content = rewriteStaticLinks(model.get(contentName), baseAssetUrl, '/static/');
+            content = rewriteCdnLinksToStatic(content); // eslint-disable-line no-undef
             model.set(contentName, content);
             var $codeMirror = CodeMirror.fromTextArea(textArea, {
                 mode: 'text/html',
diff --git a/common/static/js/spec/utility_spec.js b/common/static/js/spec/utility_spec.js
index 65abdd47f4..cd15ee9a32 100644
--- a/common/static/js/spec/utility_spec.js
+++ b/common/static/js/spec/utility_spec.js
@@ -16,3 +16,25 @@ describe('utility.rewriteStaticLinks', function() {
         ).toBe('<img src="http://www.mysite.org/static/foo.x"/>');
     });
 });
+describe('utility.rewriteCdnLinksToStatic', function() {
+    'use strict';
+    it('does not replace "url" to "static url" if url is not following "cdn url" pattern', function() {
+        expect(
+            rewriteCdnLinksToStatic( // eslint-disable-line no-undef
+            '<img src="/asset-v1:UCentralLah+Cs201+2019_1+type@asset+block/foo.x"/>')
+        ).toBe('<img src="/asset-v1:UCentralLah+Cs201+2019_1+type@asset+block/foo.x"/>');
+        expect(
+            rewriteCdnLinksToStatic('<img src="/assets/foo.x"/>') // eslint-disable-line no-undef
+        ).toBe('<img src="/assets/foo.x"/>');
+    });
+    it('does a replace of "cdn url" to "static url" if url is part of absolute url', function() {
+        expect(
+            rewriteCdnLinksToStatic( // eslint-disable-line no-undef
+              '<img src="//prod-edxapp.edx-cdn.org/assets/foo.x"/>')
+        ).toBe('<img src="/static/foo.x"/>');
+        expect(
+          rewriteCdnLinksToStatic( // eslint-disable-line no-undef
+            '<img src="https://prod-edxapp.edx-cdn.org/assets/foo.x"/>')
+        ).toBe('<img src="/static/foo.x"/>');
+    });
+});
diff --git a/common/static/js/src/utility.js b/common/static/js/src/utility.js
index ec8d8de838..cb85718493 100644
--- a/common/static/js/src/utility.js
+++ b/common/static/js/src/utility.js
@@ -35,5 +35,13 @@ window.rewriteStaticLinks = function(content, from, to) {
     // escape all regex interpretable chars
     fromRe = from.replace(/[-\/\\^$*+?.()|[\]{}]/g, '\\$&');
     var regex = new RegExp('(https?:\/\/(www\.)?[-a-zA-Z0-9@:%._\+~#=]{2,256}\.[a-z]{2,6}([-a-zA-Z0-9@:%_\+.~#?&//=]*))?' + fromRe, 'g');
+
     return content.replace(regex, replacer);
 };
+
+// Utility method for replacing absolute URLs
+window.rewriteCdnLinksToStatic = function(content) {
+    'use strict';
+    var regex = new RegExp('((https?:)?[/][/](www.)?[-a-zA-Z0-9@:%._+~#=]{2,256}[a-z]{2,6}([-a-zA-Z0-9@:%_+~#?&//=]*)|[a-z-]{14})[/]', 'g');// eslint-disable-line max-len
+    return content.replace(regex, '/static/');
+};