Medium severity6.1NVD Advisory· Published Dec 10, 2019· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2016-1000107
CVE-2016-1000107
Description
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.
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Affected products
4- Erlang/inetsdescription
Patches
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References
4- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/18/6nvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- bugs.erlang.org/browse/ERL-198nvdIssue TrackingVendor Advisory
- httpoxy.orgnvdThird Party Advisory
- security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-1000107nvdThird Party Advisory
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