CVEvulnerability
CVE-2009-2059
6.8 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2009-06-15
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-287
Description
Opera, possibly before 9.25, 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.
Affected configurations
• opera opera browser (<= 9.22)
• opera opera browser 7.0
• opera opera browser 7.23
• opera opera browser 7.53
• opera opera browser 7.54
• opera opera browser 7.60
• opera opera browser 8.0
• opera opera browser 8.01
• opera opera browser 8.02
• opera opera browser 8.50
• opera opera browser 8.51
• opera opera browser 8.52
• opera opera browser 8.53
• opera opera browser 8.54
• opera opera browser 9.0
• opera opera browser 9.01
• opera opera browser 9.02
• opera opera browser 9.10
• opera opera browser 9.12
• opera opera browser 9.20
• opera opera browser 9.21
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-287 Improper Authentication weakness
References
- http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=79323 research.microsoft.com
- http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/79323/pbp-final-with-update.pdf Exploit
- http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=79323 research.microsoft.com
- http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/79323/pbp-final-with-update.pdf Exploit