CVE-2014-5277 Man-in-the-Middle (MitM)

What is CVE-2014-5277?

CVE-2014-5277 is a medium-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 17 Nov 2014. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-17

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-5277?

4 open source packages ship an affected version, including github.com/docker/docker and docker-py. It affects 2 products.

Products include Docker Docker, Docker Docker-Py.

How do I fix CVE-2014-5277?

Upgrade github.com/docker/docker to 1.3.1 or later.

Is CVE-2014-5277 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-5277 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in n/a

• CVE-2014-9357 Arbitrary Code Execution Critical 10.0
• CVE-2020-14298 Privilege escalation in Docker High 8.8
• CVE-2020-14300 Privilege escalation in Docker High 8.8
• CVE-2018-15514 Deserialization in n/a High 8.8
• CVE-2014-9356 Path Traversal in Docker High 8.6

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-5277, GHSA-8w94-cf6g-c8mg, GO-2022-0636, PYSEC-2014-80, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-5277.