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Twisted: sets environmental variable based on user supplied Proxy request header

Published Mar 11, 2020

Description

Twisted before 16.3.1 does not attempt to address RFC 3875 section 4.1.18 namespace conflicts and therefore does not protect CGI applications from the presence of untrusted client data in the HTTP_PROXY environment variable, which might allow remote attackers to redirect a CGI application's outbound HTTP traffic to an arbitrary proxy server via a crafted Proxy header in an HTTP request, aka an "httpoxy" issue.

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Red Hat statement

This issue affects the versions of python-twisted as shipped with Red Hat Satellite 6.x. However due to the manner in which python-twisted is used exploitation of this issue by an attacker would require significant access to the server, or be able to modify requests from other users via additional vulnerabilities. A future update may address this issue.

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CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Mar 11, 2020
Updated Aug 6, 2024
Reserved Jul 18, 2016
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Important
Public date Jul 18, 2016
ENISA EUVD
Assigner mitre
Published Mar 11, 2020
Updated Aug 6, 2024
Exploited since n/a
EUVD-2020-0227 GHSA-3GQJ-CMXR-P4X2