inets in Erlang possibly 22.1 and earlier follows RFC 3875 section 4.1.18 and therefore does not protect applications from the presence of untrusted client data in the HTTP_PROXY environment variable, which might allow remote attackers to redirect an application's outbound HTTP traffic to an arbitrary proxy server via a crafted Proxy header in an HTTP request, aka an "httpoxy" issue.
References
Link Resource
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/18/6 Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://bugs.erlang.org/browse/ERL-198 Issue Tracking Vendor Advisory
https://httpoxy.org/ Third Party Advisory
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-1000107 Third Party Advisory
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2019-12-10T17:32:33

Updated: 2019-12-10T17:32:33

Reserved: 2016-07-18T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2016-1000107

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2019-12-10T18:15:09.140

Modified: 2019-12-19T17:57:35.770


Link: CVE-2016-1000107

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CWE