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Unscored CVE-2016-6287 EUVD-2016-7217GHSA-xrv7-w6wq-5f4g

The "http-client" egg always used a HTTP_PROXY environment variable to determine whether HTTP traffic should be routed via a proxy, even wh…

Published Jan 10, 2017 · Updated Aug 6, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

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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