Bug 1287577 (CVE-2015-8400)

Summary: CVE-2015-8400 shellinabox: DNS rebinding attack due to HTTP fallback
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Martin Prpič <mprpic>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Martin Prpič 2015-12-02 11:32:27 UTC 
The shellinabox server, while using the HTTPS protocol, allows HTTP fallback through the "/plain" URL.

Upstream issue:

https://github.com/shellinabox/shellinabox/issues/355

Original report:

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/02/6
Comment 1 Martin Prpič 2015-12-02 11:32:55 UTC 
Created shellinabox tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1287578]
Affects: epel-all [bug 1287579]