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Current Description

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.

Source:  MITRE
Description Last Modified:  03/01/2018
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Impact

CVSS v3.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 8.1 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H (V3 legend)
Impact Score: 5.9
Exploitability Score: 2.2

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): High
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): High

CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.1 MEDIUM
Vector: (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) (V2 legend)
Impact Subscore: 6.4
Exploitability Subscore: 4.9

Access Vector (AV): Network
Access Complexity (AC): High
Authentication (AU): None
Confidentiality (C): Partial
Integrity (I): Partial
Availability (A): Partial
Additional Information:
Allows unauthorized disclosure of information
Allows unauthorized modification
Allows disruption of service

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Hyperlink Resource
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-09/msg00025.html Third Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1624.html Third Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2045.html Third Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2046.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/linuxbulletinoct2016-3090545.html Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91818 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036331 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry Vendor Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1635 Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1636 Third Party Advisory
https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbhf03770en_us Third Party Advisory
https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05320149 Third Party Advisory
https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05324759 Third Party Advisory
https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05390722 Third Party Advisory
https://httpoxy.org/ Third Party Advisory
https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/changelog.html Release Notes Vendor Advisory
https://www.apache.org/security/asf-httpoxy-response.txt Vendor Advisory

Technical Details

Vulnerability Type (View All)

  • Improper Access Control (CWE-284)

Change History

17 change records found - show changes

Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2016-5388
NVD Published Date:
07/18/2016
NVD Last Modified:
08/15/2018