CVE-2015-8400

high
Published 2016-01-12 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
7.4
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.4

Description

The HTTPS fallback implementation in Shell In A Box (aka shellinabox) before 2.19 makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct DNS rebinding attacks via the "/plain" URL.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
82%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact

fedora Fedora Affected 2 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
23 Affected โ€”
22 Affected โ€”
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 2.19
sid Fixed 2.19
forky Fixed 2.19
bullseye Fixed 2.19
bookworm Fixed 2.19

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
shellinabox_projectshellinabox{"endIncluding":"2.18"}

References

CWEs

CWE-254

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.