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CVE-2009-1836

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-287 Authentication Issues
Publication date:
12/06/2009
Last modified:
09/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.80 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
6.80
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 3.0.10 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:0.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:0.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:0.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:0.7.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:0.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:0.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:0.9:rc:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:0.9.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:0.9.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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