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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2016-1000107

inets in Erlang possibly 22.1 and earlier 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.

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1 Nov 2026, 06:29 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2016-1000107

core-osv · Original source

Published 10 Dec 2019, 18:15 UTC

inets in Erlang possibly 22.1 and earlier 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.

osv:CVE-2016-1000107
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-1000107",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "title": "CVE-2016-1000107",
    "summary": "inets in Erlang possibly 22.1 and earlier 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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2016-1000107",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
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      "aliases": [
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      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
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              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "e62a389ce5dd27e7b26802243a5565ffd1feaef0"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
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                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\\/otp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
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                      {
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                      }
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                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
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              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
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            "OTP-22.0-rc3",
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            "OTP-22.0-rc1",
            "OTP-19.0",
            "OTP-21.0-rc2",
            "OTP-18.0",
            "OTP-21.0-rc1",
            "OTP-17.0",
            "OTP-20.0-rc2",
            "OTP-20.0-rc1",
            "OTP-19.0-rc2",
            "OTP-19.0-rc1",
            "OTP_R16B",
            "OTP-18.0-rc1",
            "OTP_17.0-rc2",
            "OTP_17.0-rc1",
            "OTP_R13B03",
            "OTP_R16A_RELEASE_CANDIDATE",
            "OTP_R14B03",
            "OTP_R15B",
            "OTP_R15A",
            "OTP_R14B02",
            "OTP_R14B01",
            "OTP_R14B",
            "OTP_R13B04",
            "OTP_R14A"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-1000107.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:40.292313613Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://httpoxy.org/",
        "https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-1000107",
        "https://bugs.erlang.org/browse/ERL-198"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2016-1000107",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 434879,
  "published_at": "2019-12-10T18:15:09.14+00:00"
}