CVE-2009-1836
Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.11, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.22, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.17 use the HTTP Host header to determine the context of a document provided in a non-200 CONNECT response from a proxy server, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers…
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (2.03%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.11, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.22, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.17 use the HTTP Host header to determine the context of a document provided in a non-200 CONNECT response from a proxy server, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to execute arbitrary web script by modifying this CONNECT response, aka an "SSL tampering" attack.
- CVSS 2.0
- 6.8 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- EPSS
- 2.03% probability · 80th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-287
- Affected
- mozilla/firefox · mozilla/seamonkey · mozilla/thunderbird
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
References
- http://osvdb.org/55160
- http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=79323
- http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/79323/pbp-final-with-update.pdf
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35331Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35415
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35431Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35439Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35440Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35468
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35536
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35561
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35602
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35882
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2009&m=slackware-security.372468
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2009&m=slackware-security.425408
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-264308-1
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1820
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1830
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:141
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-27.htmlVendor Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1126.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35326
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35380
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022396
- http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2009&m=slackware-security.454275
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-782-1
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1572Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=479880Exploit
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503578Exploit
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11764
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.