CVE-2016-5386

high

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.

References

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OR52UXGM6RKSCWF3KQMVZGVZVJ3WEESJ/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7WGHKKCFP4PLVSWQKCM3FJJPEWB5ZNTU/

https://httpoxy.org/

https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbhf03770en_us

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1353798

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2017-3236622.html

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/797896

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1538.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2016-07-19

Updated: 2023-11-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High