Description
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.
Metrics
CVSS 3.1 6.1/10
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NWeakness enumeration
Affected software
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| n/a | n/a | n/a |
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/18/6Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.erlang.org/browse/ERL-198Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://httpoxy.org/Third Party Advisory
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-1000107Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/18/6Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.erlang.org/browse/ERL-198Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://httpoxy.org/Third Party Advisory
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-1000107Third Party Advisory
Timeline
- Published
- Dec 10, 2019
- Last modified
- Jun 17, 2026
- NVD status
- Modified