CVE-2016-1000107

MediumCVSS 6.1/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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 6.1/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Weakness enumeration

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
Dec 10, 2019
Last modified
Jun 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2016-1000107: Medium severity, CVSS 6.1 | Vulnix