CVE-2009-1836

Firefox SSL tampering via non-200 responses to proxy CONNECT requests

Published Jun 12, 2009 CVSS 2.0 · 6.8 Medium EPSS 2.0% KEV · Not listed
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.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

Tracking

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1820-1 New xulrunner packages fix several vulnerabilities
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1830-1 New icedove packages fix several vulnerabilities
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2009-1831 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-779-1 Firefox and Xulrunner vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-782-1 Thunderbird vulnerabilities
References
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http://osvdb.org/55160 cve-icon cve-icon
http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=79323 cve-icon cve-icon
http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/79323/pbp-final-with-update.pdf cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/35331 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/35415 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/35431 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/35439 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/35440 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/35468 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/35536 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/35561 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/35602 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/35882 cve-icon cve-icon
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2009&m=slackware-security.372468 cve-icon cve-icon
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2009&m=slackware-security.425408 cve-icon cve-icon
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-264308-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1820 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1830 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:141 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-27.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1126.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35326 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35380 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022396 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2009&m=slackware-security.454275 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-782-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1572 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=479880 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503578 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-1836 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11764 cve-icon cve-icon
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1095.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1836 cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg00444.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg00504.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg00574.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg00657.html cve-icon cve-icon
History

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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
redhat
Published
Updated
Aug 7, 2024, 5:27 AM
Reserved
May 29, 2009, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Jun 12, 2009, 9:30 PM
Modified
Jun 16, 2026, 11:08 PM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Jun 11, 2009, 12:00 AM