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CVE-2016-5387

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

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

5

CVSS 3.0

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Published · July 18, 2016

Updated · September 21, 2026

Description

It was discovered that httpd used the value of the Proxy header from HTTP requests to initialize the HTTP_PROXY environment variable for CGI scripts, which in turn was incorrectly used by certain HTTP client implementations to configure the proxy for outgoing HTTP requests. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to redirect HTTP requests performed by a CGI script to an attacker-controlled proxy via a malicious HTTP request.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

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