About the security content of macOS Server 5.2

This document describes the security content of macOS Server 5.2.

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macOS Server 5.2

Released September 20, 2016

apache

Available for: macOS Sierra 10.12

Impact: A remote attacker may be able to proxy traffic through an arbitrary server

Description: An issue existed in the handling of the HTTP_PROXY environment variable. This issue was addressed by not setting the HTTP_PROXY environment variable from CGI.

CVE-2016-4694: Dominic Scheirlinck and Scott Geary of Vend

ServerDocs Server

Available for: macOS Sierra 10.12

Impact: An attacker may be able to exploit weaknesses in the RC4 cryptographic algorithm

Description: RC4 was removed as a supported cipher.

CVE-2016-4754: Pepi Zawodsky

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Published Date: January 23, 2017