Drupal 8 uses the third-party PHP library Guzzle for making server-side HTTP requests. An attacker could provide a proxy server that Guzzle will use. The details of this are explained at https://httpoxy.org/.
Part of security release SA-CORE-2016-003
This vulnerability affects the following application versions:
- Drupal 8.0.0
- Drupal 8.0.1
- Drupal 8.0.2
- Drupal 8.0.3
- Drupal 8.0.4
- Drupal 8.0.5
- Drupal 8.0.6
- Drupal 8.1.0
- Drupal 8.1.1
- Drupal 8.1.2
- Drupal 8.1.3
- Drupal 8.1.4
- Drupal 8.1.5
- Drupal 8.1.6