Description
Apache Tomcat 7.x through 7.0.70 and 8.x through 8.5.4, when the CGI Servlet is enabled, 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. NOTE: the vendor states "A mitigation is planned for future releases of Tomcat, tracked as CVE-2016-5388"; in other words, this is not a CVE ID for a vulnerability.
Published: 2016-07-19
Score: 8.1 High
EPSS: 36.8% Moderate
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-1883-1 tomcat8 security update
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-v646-rx6w-r3qq Improper Access Control in Apache Tomcat
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3177-1 Tomcat vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4791-1 Apache Tomcat 7 vulnerabilities
References
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http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-09/msg00025.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1624.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2045.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2046.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/797896 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2017-3236622.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2016-3090545.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91818 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036331 cve-icon cve-icon
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1635 cve-icon cve-icon
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1636 cve-icon cve-icon
https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbhf03770en_us cve-icon cve-icon
https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05320149 cve-icon cve-icon
https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05324759 cve-icon cve-icon
https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05390722 cve-icon cve-icon
https://httpoxy.org/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/053d9ce4d579b02203db18545fee5e33f35f2932885459b74d1e4272%40%3Cissues.activemq.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/6b414817c2b0bf351138911c8c922ec5dd577ebc0b9a7f42d705752d%40%3Cissues.activemq.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/6d3d34adcf3dfc48e36342aa1f18ce3c20bb8e4c458a97508d5bfed1%40%3Cissues.activemq.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r2853582063cfd9e7fbae1e029ae004e6a83482ae9b70a698996353dd%40%3Cusers.tomcat.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rc6b2147532416cc736e68a32678d3947b7053c3085cf43a9874fd102%40%3Cusers.tomcat.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf21b368769ae70de4dee840a3228721ae442f1d51ad8742003aefe39%40%3Cusers.tomcat.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00015.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5388 cve-icon
https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/changelog.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.apache.org/security/asf-httpoxy-response.txt cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-5388 cve-icon
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T01:00:59.990Z

Reserved: 2016-06-10T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2016-5388

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Status : Deferred

Published: 2016-07-19T02:00:20.820

Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Link: CVE-2016-5388

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2016-07-18T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-5388 - Bugzilla

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