Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 920643
CVE-2013-2503 privoxy: Proxy-Authentication response spoofing
Last modified: 2015-07-31 03:00:38 EDT
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2013-2503 to the following vulnerability: Privoxy before 3.0.21 does not properly handle Proxy-Authenticate and Proxy-Authorization headers in the client-server data stream, which makes it easier for remote HTTP servers to spoof the intended proxy service via a 407 (aka Proxy Authentication Required) HTTP status code. References: [1] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-2503 [2] http://blog.c22.cc/2013/03/11/privoxy-proxy-authentication-credential-exposure-cve-2013-2503/ [3] http://ijbswa.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ijbswa/current/ChangeLog?revision=1.188&view=markup
This issue affects the version of the privoxy package, as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. -- This issue affects the versions of the privoxy package, as shipped with Fedora release of 17, 18, and with Fedora EPEL-6. Please schedule an update.
Created privoxy tracking bugs for this issue Affects: fedora-all [bug 920645] Affects: epel-6 [bug 920647]
Statement: Vulnerable. This issue affects the version of privoxy as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact. A future update may address this flaw. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.