CVE-2016-6287

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-19 Data Handling
Publication date:
10/01/2017
Last modified:
20/04/2025

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.

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:call-cc:http-client:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 0.9 (including)