{ "schema_version": "1.4.0", "id": "GHSA-xrv7-w6wq-5f4g", "modified": "2022-05-17T03:05:25Z", "published": "2022-05-17T03:05:25Z", "aliases": [ "CVE-2016-6287" ], "details": "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.", "severity": [ { "type": "CVSS_V3", "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N" } ], "affected": [], "references": [ { "type": "ADVISORY", "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6287" }, { "type": "WEB", "url": "http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/chicken-announce/2016-07/msg00000.html" }, { "type": "WEB", "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92105" } ], "database_specific": { "cwe_ids": [], "severity": "HIGH", "github_reviewed": false, "github_reviewed_at": null, "nvd_published_at": "2017-01-10T15:59:00Z" } }