CVE-2009-2064
Microsoft Internet Explorer 8, and possibly other versions, detects http content in https web pages only when the top-level frame uses https, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to execute arbitrary web script, in an https site's context, by…
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (4.27%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
Microsoft Internet Explorer 8, and possibly other versions, detects http content in https web pages only when the top-level frame uses https, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to execute arbitrary web script, in an https site's context, by modifying an http page to include an https iframe that references a script file on an http site, related to "HTTP-Intended-but-HTTPS-Loadable (HPIHSL) pages."
- CVSS 2.0
- 6.8 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- EPSS
- 4.27% probability · 91th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-287
- Affected
- microsoft/internet explorer · microsoft/pocket ie
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=79323
- http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/79323/pbp-final-with-update.pdf
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35403
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51186
- http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=79323
- http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/79323/pbp-final-with-update.pdf
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35403
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51186
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.