CVE-2016-5388
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Jul 19, 2016
- Updated
- Oct 15, 2026
- Reserved
- Jun 10, 2016
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.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- RHSA-2016:1635vendor-advisory
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05320149
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05324759
- VU#797896third-party-advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2016-3090545.html
- RHSA-2016:2045vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2016:2046vendor-advisory
- https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/changelog.html
- 91818vdb-entry
- openSUSE-SU-2016:2252vendor-advisory
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05390722
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbhf03770en_us
- RHSA-2016:1624vendor-advisory
- https://www.apache.org/security/asf-httpoxy-response.txt
- https://httpoxy.org/
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2017-3236622.html
- 1036331vdb-entry
- RHSA-2016:1636vendor-advisory
- [debian-lts-announce] 20190813 [SECURITY] [DLA 1883-1] tomcat8 security updatemailing-list
- [activemq-issues] 20190820 [jira] [Created] (AMQ-7279) Security Vulnerabilities in Libraries - jackson-databind-2.9.8.jar, tomcat-servlet-api-8.0.53.jar, tomcat-websocket-api-8.0.53.jar, zookeeper-3.4.6.jar, guava-18.0.jar, jetty-all-9.2.26.v20180806.jar, scala-library-2.11.0.jarmailing-list
- [activemq-issues] 20190826 [jira] [Created] (AMQ-7288) Security Vulnerabilities in ActiveMQ dependent libraries.mailing-list
- [activemq-issues] 20190925 [jira] [Created] (AMQ-7310) Security Vulnerabilities in Tomcat-websocket-api.jarmailing-list
- [tomcat-users] 20200813 CVE reporting discrepenciesmailing-list
- [tomcat-users] 20200813 Re: CVE reporting discrepenciesmailing-list
- [tomcat-users] 20200814 Re: CVE reporting discrepenciesmailing-list
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