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.
Fixes

Solution

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Workaround

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References
Link Providers
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

No history.

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T05:27:54.628Z

Reserved: 2009-05-29T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2009-1836

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2009-06-12T21:30:00.327

Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Link: CVE-2009-1836

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2009-06-11T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2009-1836 - Bugzilla

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