Open Redirect Affecting erlang package, versions <1:27.3.4.3+dfsg-1


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.48% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN14-ERLANG-11741173
  • published10 Aug 2025
  • disclosed10 Dec 2019

Introduced: 10 Dec 2019

CVE-2016-1000107  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-601  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:14 erlang to version 1:27.3.4.3+dfsg-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream erlang package and not the erlang package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:14 relevant fixed versions and status.

inets in Erlang possibly 22.1 and earlier 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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1