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CVE-2016-5387

Published: Jul 19, 2016 | Modified: Jun 17, 2026
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
5 IMPORTANT
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V3
5 IMPORTANT
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5387
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/.html

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

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
Http_serverApache2.2.0 (including)2.2.31 (including)
Http_serverApache2.4.1 (including)2.4.23 (including)
JBoss Core Services on RHEL 6RedHatjbcs-httpd24-httpd-0:2.4.6-77.SP1.jbcs.el6*
JBoss Core Services on RHEL 7RedHatjbcs-httpd24-httpd-0:2.4.6-77.SP1.jbcs.el7*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5RedHathttpd-0:2.2.3-92.el5_11*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6RedHathttpd-0:2.2.15-54.el6_8*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7RedHathttpd-0:2.4.6-40.el7_2.4*
Red Hat JBoss Core ServicesRedHat*
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 2 for RHEL 6RedHathttpd-0:2.2.26-54.ep6.el6*
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 2 for RHEL 6RedHatjbcs-httpd24-0:1-3.jbcs.el6*
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 2 for RHEL 6RedHatjbcs-httpd24-openssl-1:1.0.2h-4.jbcs.el6*
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 2 for RHEL 6RedHatmod_cluster-0:1.2.13-1.Final_redhat_1.1.ep6.el6*
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 2 for RHEL 6RedHatmod_cluster-native-0:1.2.13-3.Final_redhat_2.ep6.el6*
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 2 for RHEL 6RedHatmod_jk-0:1.2.41-2.redhat_3.ep6.el6*
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 2 for RHEL 6RedHattomcat-native-0:1.1.34-5.redhat_1.ep6.el6*
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 2 for RHEL 7RedHathttpd22-0:2.2.26-56.ep6.el7*
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 2 for RHEL 7RedHatjbcs-httpd24-0:1-3.jbcs.el7*
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 2 for RHEL 7RedHatjbcs-httpd24-openssl-1:1.0.2h-4.jbcs.el7*
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 2 for RHEL 7RedHatmod_cluster-0:1.2.13-1.Final_redhat_1.1.ep6.el7*
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 2 for RHEL 7RedHatmod_cluster-native-0:1.2.13-3.Final_redhat_2.ep6.el7*
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 2 for RHEL 7RedHatmod_jk-0:1.2.41-2.redhat_3.ep6.el7*
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 2 for RHEL 7RedHattomcat-native-0:1.1.34-5.redhat_1.ep6.el7*
Red Hat JBoss Web Server 2.1RedHat*
Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3.0RedHat*
Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3 for RHEL 6RedHathttpd24-0:2.4.6-62.ep7.el6*
Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3 for RHEL 6RedHattomcat7-0:7.0.59-51_patch_01.ep7.el6*
Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3 for RHEL 6RedHattomcat8-0:8.0.18-62_patch_01.ep7.el6*
Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3 for RHEL 7RedHathttpd24-0:2.4.6-62.ep7.el7*
Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3 for RHEL 7RedHattomcat7-0:7.0.59-51_patch_01.ep7.el7*
Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3 for RHEL 7RedHattomcat8-0:8.0.18-62_patch_01.ep7.el7*
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6RedHathttpd24-httpd-0:2.4.18-11.el6*
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 EUSRedHathttpd24-httpd-0:2.4.18-11.el6*
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 EUSRedHathttpd24-httpd-0:2.4.18-11.el6*
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7RedHathttpd24-httpd-0:2.4.18-11.el7*
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 EUSRedHathttpd24-httpd-0:2.4.18-11.el7*
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 EUSRedHathttpd24-httpd-0:2.4.18-11.el7*
Apache2Ubuntudevel*
Apache2Ubuntuesm-infra-legacy/trusty*
Apache2Ubuntuesm-infra-legacy/xenial*
Apache2Ubuntuesm-infra/xenial*
Apache2Ubuntuprecise*
Apache2Ubuntutrusty*
Apache2Ubuntutrusty/esm*
Apache2Ubuntuwily*
Apache2Ubuntuxenial*

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