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CVE-2009-2071

MEDIUM CVSS: 6.8 Published: 2009-06-15 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Google Chrome before 1.0.154.53 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 Platforms

Google Chrome

Weakness Type

CWE-287

References