CVE-2016-6286

The "spiffy-cgi-handlers" egg would convert a nonexistent "Proxy" header to the HTTPPROXY environment variable, which would allow attackers to direct CGI programs which use this environment variable to use an attacker-specified HTTP proxy server also known as a "httpoxy" attack. This affects all...

USN-3038-1 apache2 vulnerability

It was discovered that the Apache HTTP Server would set the HTTPPROXY environment variable based on the contents of the Proxy header from HTTP requests. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue in combination with CGI scripts that honour the HTTPPROXY variable to redirect outgoing HTTP...