CVE-2016-5388

CVE Details

Release Date:	2016-07-18
Impact:	Moderate	What is this?

Description

Apache Tomcat through 8.5.4, when the CGI Servlet is enabled, followsRFC 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

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NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	2.6
Vector String:	AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Network
Attack Complexity:	High
Authentication:	None
Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	Partial
Availability Impact:	None

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 6 (tomcat6)	ELSA-2016-2045	2016-10-10
Oracle Linux version 7 (tomcat)	ELSA-2016-2046	2016-10-10