CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-5387

Published: Jul 19, 2016 | Modified: Nov 07, 2023
CVSS 3.x
8.1
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
6.8 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

The Apache HTTP Server through 2.4.23 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 applications outbound HTTP traffic to an arbitrary proxy server via a crafted Proxy header in an HTTP request, aka an httpoxy issue. NOTE: the vendor states This mitigation has been assigned the identifier CVE-2016-5387; in other words, this is not a CVE ID for a vulnerability.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Http_server Apache 2.2.0 (including) 2.2.31 (including)
Http_server Apache 2.4.1 (including) 2.4.23 (including)

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