National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-2063
Original release date:06/15/2009
Last revised:06/23/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Opera, possibly before 9.25, processes a 3xx HTTP CONNECT response before a successful SSL handshake, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to execute arbitrary web script, in an https site's context, by modifying this CONNECT response to specify a 302 redirect to an arbitrary https web site.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: XF
Name: opera-httpconnect-code-execution(51204)
External Source: BID
Name: 35412
External Source: MISC
Name: http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/79323/pbp-final-with-update.pdf
External Source: MISC
Name: http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=79323
