CVE-2009-2057

medium Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.8
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
EPSS Score
9.2%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 7% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
M
Confidentiality
P
Integrity
P
Availability
None
Published: June 15, 2009 (6177 days ago)
Last Modified: April 23, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

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.

CWE

CWE-287

Affected Products

microsoft iemicrosoft internet explorer

References

🔗 research.microsoft.com 🔗 research.microsoft.com 🔗 research.microsoft.com 🔗 research.microsoft.com