CVE-2016-5388

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 products

Alt Linux, Apache Tomcat, Centos, Red Hat, Suse, Ubuntu

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

Fix

Available

CVSS 3.0

8.1 HIGH

EPSS

50.9% (99th percentile)

Weakness

CWE-284

NVD status

Modified

Published

2016-07-19

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