CVE-2016-1000107

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2019-12-10 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-601

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.

Affected products

Erlang OTP: through 22.1

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/18/6
https://bugs.erlang.org/browse/ERL-198
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
https://httpoxy.org/
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-1000107

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