CVE-2016-5388

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    CVE-2016-5388

    Published: 19 Jul 2016Last Modified: 17 Oct 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/053d9ce4d579b02203db18545fee5e33f35f2932885459b74d1e4272%40%3Cissues.activemq.apache.org%3E, https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/6b414817c2b0bf351138911c8c922ec5dd577ebc0b9a7f42d705752d%40%3Cissues.activemq.apache.org%3E, https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/6d3d34adcf3dfc48e36342aa1f18ce3c20bb8e4c458a97508d5bfed1%40%3Cissues.activemq.apache.org%3E, https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r2853582063cfd9e7fbae1e029ae004e6a83482ae9b70a698996353dd%40%3Cusers.tomcat.apache.org%3E, https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rc6b2147532416cc736e68a32678d3947b7053c3085cf43a9874fd102%40%3Cusers.tomcat.apache.org%3E, https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf21b368769ae70de4dee840a3228721ae442f1d51ad8742003aefe39%40%3Cusers.tomcat.apache.org%3E, https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00015.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-09/msg00025.html, http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1624.html, http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2045.html, http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2046.html, http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/797896, http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2016-3090545.html, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91818, http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036331, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1635, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1636, https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbhf03770en_us, 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, https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05390722, https://httpoxy.org/, https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/changelog.html, https://www.apache.org/security/asf-httpoxy-response.txt, http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2017-3236622.html

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- e498667bd7811e846771a852b16ce9f1e524b81b
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    8.5.4

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
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    User Interaction
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    Required
    Scope
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    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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