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CVE-2016-1000107 json

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…

published 6y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2016-1052

cvss
6.1
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.5%
EPSS 1.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 74%
public exploits
0
none known

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.

Patch / fix

  • erlang Debian 13 1:27.3.4.1+dfsg-1+deb13u1
  • erlang Debian 14 1:27.3.4.3+dfsg-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2016-1000107

  • erlang openSUSE Tumbleweed 28.1.1-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2025:15706-1

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Vendor advisories

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red hat product security vex CVE-2016-1000107 updated cvss 6.1

erlang: allow remote attackers to redirect an application's outbound HTTP traffic to an arbitrary proxy serve

  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 (Newton) erlang, erlang-ic, erlang-ose, erlang-ssh, erlang-ssl, erlang-asn1, +34 more Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens) erlang, erlang-ic, erlang-ftp, erlang-ose, erlang-ssh, erlang-ssl, +36 more Red Hat OpenStack Platform 15 (Stein) erlang-ssl, erlang-asn1, erlang-erts, erlang-hipe, erlang-sasl, erlang-snmp, +15 more Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16 (Train) erlang, erlang-ssl, erlang-asn1, erlang-erts, erlang-hipe, erlang-sasl, +16 more
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine 5 erlang, erlang-et, erlang-gs, erlang-ic, erlang-wx, erlang-ssh, +44 more Red Hat Ansible Tower 3 erlang
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.48% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 74% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-601 URL Redirection to Untrusted Site

References

Sources

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