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Case File

CVE-2016-6286

HIGH · CVSS 7.5 EPSS 1.48%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2017-01-10 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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CVE
CVE-2016-6286
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.5
EPSS
1.48%

Original Filing — NVD 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.