| Name | CVE-2016-1000107 |
| Description | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 1115086 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| erlang (PTS) | bullseye | 1:23.2.6+dfsg-1+deb11u1 | vulnerable |
| bullseye (security) | 1:23.2.6+dfsg-1+deb11u2 | vulnerable |
| bookworm | 1:25.2.3+dfsg-1+deb12u3 | vulnerable |
| bookworm (security) | 1:25.2.3+dfsg-1+deb12u1 | vulnerable |
| forky, sid, trixie | 1:27.3.4.1+dfsg-1 | vulnerable |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| erlang | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | unimportant | | 1115086 |
Notes
https://bugs.erlang.org/browse/ERL-198
https://github.com/erlang/otp/security/advisories/GHSA-wrj5-4mmp-gvr8
Fixed by (merge): https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/13b092a06ab9fad685890d0e963ad8095d0f31ec (OTP-28.0.4)
Fixed by (merge): https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/5b7b1484e839663b7cc013ef6ad80c38a4c611a3 (OTP-27.3.4.3)
Fixed by (merge): https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/1dfd13d2f4bea6c21ad3b6b950ecf791a329c9a3 (OTP-26.2.5.15)
No part of Erlang does set HTTP_PROXY based on a Proxy: header, just hardening