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CVE-2016-6286
HIGH · CVSS 7.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-01-10T15:59:00.313 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:50:45.017

Summary

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.

Affected products

call-cc — http-client

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References

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