The vulnerable system must be accepting plaintext (non-TLS) HTTP connections, either directly or via h2c. Deployments that exclusively use TLS are not affected.
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Downstream Plug consumers that branch on conn.scheme are silently misled: Plug.SSL's already-secure branch skips its HTTP\u2192HTTPS redirect, cookies emitted with secure: true are sent over plaintext, audit logs record requests as having arrived over HTTPS, and CSRF/SameSite gating may make incorrect decisions.
This issue affects bandit: from 1.0.0 before 1.11.0.
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