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CVE-2016-6287
Published: Jan 10, 2017
Modified: Aug 6, 2024
PUBLISHED
Description
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.
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n/a | n/a | affected n/a |
References
[chicken-announce] 20160721 [SECURITY] spiffy-cgi-handlers and http-client updated to prevent "httpoxy" attack
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