CVE-2016-1000107

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.

Category

6.1
CVSS
Severity: Medium
CVSS 3.1 •
CVSS 2.0 •
EPSS 0.53%
Vendor Advisory erlang.org
Affected: n/a n/a
Published at:
Updated at:

References

Link Tags
https://httpoxy.org/ third party advisory
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-1000107 third party advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/18/6 third party advisory mailing list
https://bugs.erlang.org/browse/ERL-198 vendor advisory issue tracking

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2016-1000107?
CVE-2016-1000107 has been scored as a medium severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2016-1000107?
To fix CVE-2016-1000107, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2016-1000107 being actively exploited in the wild?
As for now, there are no information to confirm that CVE-2016-1000107 is being actively exploited. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~1% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
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