PT-2009-4301 · Mozilla+1 · Firefox+3

Ming Zhang

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Published

2009-06-11

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Updated

2018-10-30

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CVE-2009-1836

CVSS v2.0

6.8

Medium

VectorAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 3.0.11 Thunderbird versions prior to 2.0.0.22 SeaMonkey versions prior to 1.1.17
Description: The issue allows man-in-the-middle attackers to execute arbitrary web script by modifying a non-200 CONNECT response from a proxy server. This is achieved by using the HTTP Host header to determine the context of a document.
Recommendations: For Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 3.0.11, update to version 3.0.11 or later. For Thunderbird versions prior to 2.0.0.22, update to version 2.0.0.22 or later. For SeaMonkey versions prior to 1.1.17, update to version 1.1.17 or later.

Exploit

Fix

Improper Authentication

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Weakness Enumeration

CWE-287

Related Identifiers

CVE-2009-1836
DSA-1820-1
DSA-1830-1
RHSA-2009:1095
RHSA-2009:1126
RHSA-2009_1095
RHSA-2009_1126

Affected Products

Firefox
Red Hat
Seamonkey
Thunderbird