Bug 1164849 (CVE-2014-5277)

Summary: CVE-2014-5277 docker: fallback to HTTP when HTTPS connections to the registry fail
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Vincent Danen <vdanen>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: andreas.bierfert, dwalsh, mattdm
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Fixed In Version: docker 1.3.1 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Bug Depends On: 1164850, 1164851    
Bug Blocks: 1063551    

Description Vincent Danen 2014-11-17 17:23:37 UTC 
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2014-5277 to
the following vulnerability:

Name: CVE-2014-5277
URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-5277
Assigned: 20140816
Reference: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/docker-user/oYm0i3xShJU
Reference: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00048.html

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.
Comment 1 Vincent Danen 2014-11-17 17:24:20 UTC 
Created docker tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1164850]
Affects: epel-6 [bug 1164851]