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CVE-2015-1843

14
FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-1843 describes a vulnerability in Red Hat's docker package prior to version 1.5.0-28. This flaw allows man-in-the-middle attackers to perform downgrade attacks and intercept sensitive data, including authentication credentials and image data, when the --add-registry option is used and an HTTPS connection to the registry fails, causing a fallback to HTTP. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3 (Medium), indicating a network-based attack with medium complexity and a potential impact of partial information disclosure. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.5.0-27CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:docker:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.62%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
73.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0162 is in the 49th percentile among its peer group of 19,955 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 ExtrasFixed in: docker-0:1.5.0-28.el7
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2015-1843Moderate

docker: regression of CVE-2014-5277

Mar 27, 2015

References

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-0776.html
Vendor Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
securityfocus.com / bid/73936