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CVE-2016-5388

Apache Tomcat 7.x through 7.0.70 and 8.x through 8.5.4, when the CGI Servlet is enabled, 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…

Severity
High 8.1
Published
19 Jul 2016
Last changed
15 Oct 2026
Added to UpHeron
21 Oct 2026
Sources
NVD

Affected software

SoftwareAffected versions
Apache TomcatServers and applications · cpe:a:apache:tomcat
  • From 6.0 up to 6.0.45
  • From 7.0 up to 7.0.70
  • From 8.0 up to 8.5.4

References

  • NVD https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5388
  • CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-5388