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authorSenthil Kumaran <senthil@uthcode.com>2016-07-31 06:51:13 (GMT)
committerSenthil Kumaran <senthil@uthcode.com>2016-07-31 06:51:13 (GMT)
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[merge from 3.5] - Prevent HTTPoxy attack (CVE-2016-1000110)
Ignore the HTTP_PROXY variable when REQUEST_METHOD environment is set, which indicates that the script is in CGI mode. Issue #27568 Reported and patch contributed by RĂ©mi Rampin.
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diff --git a/Lib/urllib/request.py b/Lib/urllib/request.py
index 67e73f9..dc436bc 100644
--- a/Lib/urllib/request.py
+++ b/Lib/urllib/request.py
@@ -2477,6 +2477,12 @@ def getproxies_environment():
name = name.lower()
if value and name[-6:] == '_proxy':
proxies[name[:-6]] = value
+ # CVE-2016-1000110 - If we are running as CGI script, forget HTTP_PROXY
+ # (non-all-lowercase) as it may be set from the web server by a "Proxy:"
+ # header from the client
+ # If "proxy" is lowercase, it will still be used thanks to the next block
+ if 'REQUEST_METHOD' in os.environ:
+ proxies.pop('http', None)
for name, value in os.environ.items():
if name[-6:] == '_proxy':
name = name.lower()