DSA-3623-1 apache2 -- apache2ID: oval:org.secpod.oval:def:602561 | Date: (C)2016-07-21 (M)2023-12-20 |
Class: PATCH | Family: unix |
Scott Geary of VendHQ discovered that the Apache HTTPD server used the value of the Proxy header from HTTP requests to initialize the HTTP_PROXY 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 possibly use this flaw to redirect HTTP requests performed by a CGI script to an attacker-controlled proxy via a malicious HTTP request.