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.
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-2016-6287

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2017-01-10T15:59:00.347

Modified: 2017-01-11T00:30:39.473


Link: CVE-2016-6287

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