CVE-2026-42313 pyload-ng: non-admin SETTINGS users can redirect all outbound traffic through an attacker-controlled proxy

pyLoad is a free and open-source download manager written in Python. Prior to 0.5.0b3.dev100, the setconfigvalue API method @permissionPerms.SETTINGS in src/pyload/core/api/init.py gates security-sensitive options behind a hand-maintained allowlist ADMINONLYCOREOPTIONS. The allowlist contains...

GHSA-PG67-9WJV-MR85 pyload-ng: non-admin SETTINGS users can redirect all outbound traffic through an attacker-controlled proxy via unrestricted `proxy.*` config (incomplete fix for CVE-2026-33509 / -35463 / -35464 / -35586)

Summary The setconfigvalue API method @permissionPerms.SETTINGS in src/pyload/core/api/init.py gates security-sensitive options behind a hand-maintained allowlist ADMINONLYCOREOPTIONS. The allowlist contains "proxy", "username" and "proxy", "password" — which protect the proxy credentials — but i...

HTTPD: sets environmental variable based on user supplied Proxy request header

It was discovered that httpd used the value of the Proxy header from HTTP requests to initialize the HTTPPROXY environment variable for CGI scripts, which in turn was incorrectly used by certain HTTP client implementations to configure the proxy for outgoing HTTP requests. A remote attacker could...