Improper Input Validation The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package erlang.src  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-ERLANGSRC-12615390
  • published11 Sept 2025
  • disclosed1 Jan 2016

Introduced: 1 Jan 2016

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

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream erlang.src package and not the erlang.src package as distributed by RHEL.

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.