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CVE-2016-5385

PHP: sets environmental variable based on user supplied Proxy request header

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5

CVSS 3.0

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Published · July 18, 2016

Updated · June 28, 2026

Description

It was discovered that PHP did not properly protect against the HTTP_PROXY variable name clash. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to redirect HTTP requests performed by a PHP script to an attacker-controlled proxy via a malicious HTTP request.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N

CVSS 2.0 · 5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CWE-20 · Improper Input Validation