Improper Access Control Affecting php package, versions [,7.0.9)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
94.02% (100th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PHP-2335198
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed19 Jul 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 19 Jul 2016

CVE-2016-5385  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-284  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade php to version 7.0.9 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Access Control. PHP through 7.0.8 does not attempt to address RFC 3875 section 4.1.18 namespace conflicts 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, as demonstrated by (1) an application that makes a getenv('HTTP_PROXY') call or (2) a CGI configuration of PHP, aka an "httpoxy" issue.

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