CVE-2016-6287 (GCVE-0-2016-6287)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-01-10 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 01:22
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Summary
The "http-client" egg always used a HTTP_PROXY environment variable to determine whether HTTP traffic should be routed via a proxy, even when running as a CGI process. Under several web servers this would mean a user-supplied "Proxy" header could allow an attacker to direct all HTTP requests through a proxy (also known as a "httpoxy" attack). This affects all versions of http-client before 0.10.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
mitre CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 28/100 over 2340 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/chicken-announc… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92105 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
Date Public
2016-07-21 00:00
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