CVE-2016-1000107

MEDIUM

Erlang/OTP < 22.1 - HTTP Proxy Header Injection via HTTP_PROXY Environment Variable

Title source: manual
STIX 2.1

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.

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://httpoxy.org/
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-1000107
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/18/6
Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugs.erlang.org/browse/ERL-198

Scores

CVSS v3 6.1
EPSS 0.0143
EPSS Percentile 69.5%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-601
Status published
Products (1)
erlang/erlang\/otp < 22.1
Published Dec 10, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026