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CVE-2016-5386 Detail

Description

The net/http package in Go through 1.6 does not attempt to address RFC 3875 section 4.1.18 namespace conflicts and therefore does not protect CGI applications from the presence of untrusted client data in the HTTP_PROXY environment variable, which might allow remote attackers to redirect a CGI application's outbound HTTP traffic to an arbitrary proxy server via a crafted Proxy header in an HTTP request, aka an "httpoxy" issue.


Severity

 


CVSS 3.x Severity and Metrics:

NIST CVSS score
NIST: NVD
Base Score:  8.1 HIGH
Vector:  CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H


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Hyperlink Resource
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1538.html Third Party Advisory 
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/797896 Third Party Advisory  US Government Resource 
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2017-3236622.html Patch  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html Third Party Advisory 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1353798 Issue Tracking  Third Party Advisory 
https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbhf03770en_us Third Party Advisory 
https://httpoxy.org/ Third Party Advisory 
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7WGHKKCFP4PLVSWQKCM3FJJPEWB5ZNTU/ Third Party Advisory 
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OR52UXGM6RKSCWF3KQMVZGVZVJ3WEESJ/ Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-284 Improper Access Control cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2016-5386
NVD Published Date:
07/18/2016
NVD Last Modified:
08/16/2022
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.