CVE-2009-2057

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Jun 15, 2009
Updated: Sep 17, 2024
Reserved: Jun 15, 2009

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer before 8 uses the HTTP Host header to determine the context of a document provided in a (1) 4xx or (2) 5xx 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.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/79323/pbp-final-with-update.pdf
http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=79323

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