CVE-2016-6287

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Summary

CVECVE-2016-6287
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2017-01-10 15:59:00 UTC
Updated2017-01-11 00:30:00 UTC
DescriptionThe "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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-19

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Call-cc Http-client All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[Chicken-announce] [SECURITY] spiffy-cgi-handlers and http-client update MLIST lists.gnu.org Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
Multiple CHICKEN Egg Products Multiple Security Bypass Vulnerabilities BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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