{ "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" } ] } }