Description (CNA)
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.
Affected (CNA)
| Vendor / product | Versions |
|---|---|
| n/a / n/a | affected n/a |
CWE
No CWE identifiers supplied.
References
- https://httpoxy.org/
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-1000107
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/18/6
- https://bugs.erlang.org/browse/ERL-198
ADP enrichment
No English description supplied.