Improper Input Validation Affecting erlang package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.53% (66th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-ERLANG-9887319
  • published28 Apr 2025
  • disclosed1 Jan 2016

Introduced: 1 Jan 2016

CVE-2016-1000107  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:10 erlang.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream erlang package and not the erlang package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:10 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