CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-5388

8.1 HIGH Published 2016-07-19 Modified 2026-10-15 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-07-19
Last modified
2026-10-15
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
8.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.1 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-284

Description

Apache Tomcat 7.x through 7.0.70 and 8.x through 8.5.4, when the CGI Servlet is enabled, 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. NOTE: the vendor states "A mitigation is planned for future releases of Tomcat, tracked as CVE-2016-5388"; in other words, this is not a CVE ID for a vulnerability.

Affected configurations

• redhat enterprise linux desktop 7.0 • redhat enterprise linux hpc node 7.0 • redhat enterprise linux hpc node eus 7.2 • redhat enterprise linux server 7.0 • redhat enterprise linux server aus 7.2 • redhat enterprise linux server eus 7.2 • redhat enterprise linux server tus 7.2 • redhat enterprise linux workstation 7.0 • hp system management homepage (<= 7.5.5.0) • redhat enterprise linux desktop 6.0 • redhat enterprise linux hpc node 6.0 • redhat enterprise linux server 6.0 • redhat enterprise linux workstation 6.0 • oracle linux 6 • oracle linux 7 • apache tomcat (>= 6.0 <= 6.0.45) • apache tomcat (>= 7.0 <= 7.0.70) • apache tomcat (>= 8.0 <= 8.5.4)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-284 Improper Access Control weakness

References