CVE-2016-1000107
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…
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.42%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 6.1 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- EPSS
- 1.42% probability · 71th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-601
- Affected
- erlang/erlang\/otp
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/18/6Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.erlang.org/browse/ERL-198Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://httpoxy.org/Third Party Advisory
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-1000107Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/18/6Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.erlang.org/browse/ERL-198Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://httpoxy.org/Third Party Advisory
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-1000107Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.