{ "CVE_data_meta" : { "ASSIGNER" : "cve@mitre.org", "ID" : "CVE-2016-6286", "STATE" : "PUBLIC" }, "affects" : { "vendor" : { "vendor_data" : [ { "product" : { "product_data" : [ { "product_name" : "n/a", "version" : { "version_data" : [ { "version_value" : "n/a" } ] } } ] }, "vendor_name" : "n/a" } ] } }, "data_format" : "MITRE", "data_type" : "CVE", "data_version" : "4.0", "description" : { "description_data" : [ { "lang" : "eng", "value" : "The \"spiffy-cgi-handlers\" egg would convert a nonexistent \"Proxy\" header to the HTTP_PROXY environment variable, which would allow attackers to direct CGI programs which use this environment variable to use an attacker-specified HTTP proxy server (also known as a \"httpoxy\" attack). This affects all versions of spiffy-cgi-handlers before 0.5." } ] }, "problemtype" : { "problemtype_data" : [ { "description" : [ { "lang" : "eng", "value" : "n/a" } ] } ] }, "references" : { "reference_data" : [ { "name" : "[chicken-announce] 20160721 [SECURITY] spiffy-cgi-handlers and http-client updated to prevent \"httpoxy\" attack", "refsource" : "MLIST", "url" : "http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/chicken-announce/2016-07/msg00000.html" }, { "name" : "92105", "refsource" : "BID", "url" : "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92105" } ] } }