HTTPoxy vulnerability in spiffy-cgi-handlers before 0.5

CVE-2016-6286 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

The "spiffy-cgi-handlers" egg would convert a nonexistent "Proxy" header to the HTTP_PROXY environment variable, which would allow attackers to direct CGI programs which use this environment variable to use an attacker-specified HTTP proxy server (also known as a "httpoxy" attack). This affects all versions of spiffy-cgi-handlers before 0.5.

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