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CVE-2009-1836

MEDIUM CVSS: 6.8 Published: 2009-06-12 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

Mozilla FirefoxMozilla SeamonkeyMozilla Thunderbird

Weakness Type

CWE-287

References