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Servers and applications

CVE-2016-1000107

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.

Severity
Medium 6.1
Published
10 Dec 2019
Last changed
17 Jun 2026
Added to UpHeron
16 Oct 2026
Sources
NVD

Affected software

SoftwareAffected versions
Erlang/OTPServers and applications · cpe:a:erlang:erlang\/otp
  • Every version up to 22.1

References

  • NVD https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-1000107
  • CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-1000107