Security advisory
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.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2016-1000107
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:29 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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": {
"kind": "advisory",
"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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"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": [
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"introduced": "0"
},
{
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}
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"range": [
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{
"last_affected": "22.1"
}
],
"source": "CPE_RANGE"
}
]
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}
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"versions": [
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"OTP-20.0",
"OTP-22.1",
"OTP-22.0-rc3",
"OTP-22.0-rc2",
"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"
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],
"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"
}