CVE-2016-1000107

6.1 mediumEPSS 1.5%

inets in Erlang possibly 22.1 and earlier follows RFC 3875 section 4.1.18 and therefore does not protect applications from the presence of untrusted client data in the HTTP_PROXY environment variable, which might allow remote attackers to redirect an application's outbound HTTP traffic to an arbitrary proxy server via a crafted Proxy header in an HTTP request, aka an "httpoxy" issue.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

6.1 medium

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 73% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-601
Published: 2019-12-10
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

erlang:erlang\/otp

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/18/6
https://bugs.erlang.org/browse/ERL-198
https://httpoxy.org/
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-1000107
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/18/6

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