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CVE-2016-6287

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-2016-6287
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.5
EPSS
1.48%

Original Filing — NVD Description

The "http-client" egg always used a HTTP_PROXY environment variable to determine whether HTTP traffic should be routed via a proxy, even when running as a CGI process. Under several web servers this would mean a user-supplied "Proxy" header could allow an attacker to direct all HTTP requests through a proxy (also known as a "httpoxy" attack). This affects all versions of http-client before 0.10.