CVE-2014-5277

Description

Docker before 1.3.1 and docker-py before 0.5.3 fall back to HTTP when the HTTPS connection to the registry fails, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to conduct downgrade attacks and obtain authentication and image data by leveraging a network position between the client and the registry to block HTTPS traffic.

How to fix CVE-2014-5277

To remediate CVE-2014-5277, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.

• —upgrade to 1.3.1~dfsg1-1 or later
• —upgrade to 1.3.1 or later
• —upgrade to 1.3.1 or later
• —upgrade to 0.5.3 or later

Is CVE-2014-5277 being exploited?

Low — EPSS is 0.7%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.

Affected packages (4)

• from 0, < 1.3.1~dfsg1-1
• from 0, < 1.3.1
• from 0, < 1.3.1
• from 0, < 0.5.3

CVSS scores

References (9)

• ADVISORYgithub.com/advisories/GHSA-8w94-cf6g-c8mg
• ADVISORYnvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-5277
• ADVISORYsecurity-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-5277
• PATCHgithub.com/docker/docker
• WEB