CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-6286
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-01-10
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-19
Description
The "spiffy-cgi-handlers" egg would convert a nonexistent "Proxy" header to the HTTP_PROXY environment variable, which would allow attackers to direct CGI programs which use this environment variable to use an attacker-specified HTTP proxy server (also known as a "httpoxy" attack). This affects all versions of spiffy-cgi-handlers before 0.5.
Affected configurations
• call-cc http-client (<= 0.4.2)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/chicken-announce/2016-07/msg00000.html Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92105 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/chicken-announce/2016-07/msg00000.html Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92105 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry