CVE-2016-5388CWE-284broken-access-control

CVE-2016-5388

High · published July 19, 2016

Patch now

High probability of exploitation

CVSS calls it high at 8.1. It sits in the 98.9th percentile for exploit probability.

CVSS v3.0
8.1
EPSS
51%
Percentile
98.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Apache Tomcat 7.x through 7.0.70 and 8.x through 8.5.4, when the CGI Servlet is enabled, 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. NOTE: the vendor states "A mitigation is planned for future releases of Tomcat, tracked as CVE-2016-5388"; in other words, this is not a CVE ID for a vulnerability.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.0
8.1 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.50896 · 98.9th percentile
Weakness
CWE-284 · Improper Access Control
Published
2016-07-19T06:00Z
Affected products (18)
ProductVersionsFixed in
redhat/enterprise_linux_desktopall versions—
redhat/enterprise_linux_hpc_nodeall versions—
redhat/enterprise_linux_hpc_node_eusall versions—
redhat/enterprise_linux_serverall versions—
redhat/enterprise_linux_server_ausall versions—
redhat/enterprise_linux_server_eusall versions—
redhat/enterprise_linux_server_tusall versions—
redhat/enterprise_linux_workstationall versions—
hp/system_management_homepage≤ 7.5.5.0—
redhat/enterprise_linux_desktopall versions—
redhat/enterprise_linux_hpc_nodeall versions—
redhat/enterprise_linux_serverall versions—
redhat/enterprise_linux_workstationall versions—
oracle/linuxall versions—
oracle/linuxall versions—
apache/tomcat≥ 6.0, ≤ 6.0.45—
apache/tomcat≥ 7.0, ≤ 7.0.70—
apache/tomcat≥ 8.0, ≤ 8.5.4—
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EPSS history
Timeline
  • 22 SEP 03:13Z
    EPSS moved 51% → 41%
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  • 06 SEP 03:09Z
    EPSS moved 51% → 41%
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  • 30 AUG 15:32Z
    EPSS moved 41% → 51%
    epss
  • 29 AUG 04:13Z
    EPSS moved 51% → 41%
    epss
  • 19 JUL 01:00Z
    Apache Tomcat 7.x through 7.0.70 and 8.x through 8.5.4, when the CGI Servlet is enabled, follows RFC 3875 section 4.1.18 and therefore does not protect…
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