CVEvulnerability
CVE-2009-2070
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 displays a cached certificate for a (1) 4xx or (2) 5xx CONNECT response page returned by a proxy server, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof an arbitrary https site by letting a browser obtain a valid certificate from this site during one request, and then sending the browser a crafted 502 response page upon a subsequent request.
Affected configurations
• opera opera browser
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 research.microsoft.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35411 www.securityfocus.com
- http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=79323 research.microsoft.com
- http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/79323/pbp-final-with-update.pdf research.microsoft.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35411 www.securityfocus.com