cvelist/2016/6xxx/CVE-2016-6287.json

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        "ID": "CVE-2016-6287",
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                "lang": "eng",
                "value": "The \"http-client\" egg always used a HTTP_PROXY environment variable to determine whether HTTP traffic should be routed via a proxy, even when running as a CGI process. Under several web servers this would mean a user-supplied \"Proxy\" header could allow an attacker to direct all HTTP requests through a proxy (also known as a \"httpoxy\" attack). This affects all versions of http-client before 0.10."
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            {
                "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"
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                "name": "92105",
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                "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92105"
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