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CVE-2016-6287
HIGH · CVSS 7.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-01-10T15:59:00.347 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:50:45.140

Summary

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.

Affected products

call-cc — http-client

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References

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