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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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2017-01-10T15:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-06T01:22:20.800Z
Reserved: 2016-07-22T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2016-6287

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Status : Deferred
Published: 2017-01-10T15:59:00.347
Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860
Link: CVE-2016-6287

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