The "spiffy-cgi-handlers" egg would convert a nonexistent "Proxy" header to the HTTP_PROXY environment variable, which would allow attackers to direct CGI programs which use this environment variable to use an attacker-specified HTTP proxy server (also known as a "httpoxy" attack). This affects all versions of spiffy-cgi-handlers before 0.5.
References
Link Resource
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/chicken-announce/2016-07/msg00000.html Mitigation Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92105 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-01-10T15:00:00

Updated: 2017-01-10T12:57:01

Reserved: 2016-07-22T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2016-6286

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2017-01-10T15:59:00.313

Modified: 2017-01-11T02:18:40.200


Link: CVE-2016-6286

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