CVE-2016-6287
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.
- Score
- CVSS 3.0 7.5 High
- Status
- Modified - cve@mitre.org
- Published
- 2017-01-10
- Last modified
- 2024-08-06
- Weaknesses
- CWE-19
Affected products
References
- http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/chicken-announce/2016-07/msg00000.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92105