CVE-2009-1836 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2009-1836

Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.11, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.22, and SeaMonkey before...

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

firefox, seamonkey, thunderbird
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.7, 0.7.1, 0.8, 0.9, 0.9.1, 0.9.2, 0.9.3, 0.9_rc, 0.10, 0.10.1, 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4, 1.0.5, 1.0.6, 1.0.7, 1.0.8, 1.4.1, 1.5, 1.5.0.1, 1.5.0.2, 1.5.0.3, 1.5.0.4, 1.5.0.5, 1.5.0.6, 1.5.0.7, 1.5.0.8, 1.5.0.9, 1.5.0.10, 1.5.0.11, 1.5.0.12, 1.5.1, 1.5.2, 1.5.3, 1.5.4, 1.5.5, 1.5.6, 1.5.7, 1.5.8, 1.8, 2.0, 2.0.0.1, 2.0.0.2, 2.0.0.3, 2.0.0.4, 2.0.0.5, 2.0.0.6, 2.0.0.7, 2.0.0.8, 2.0.0.9, 2.0.0.10, 2.0.0.11, 2.0.0.12, 2.0.0.13, 2.0.0.14, 2.0.0.15, 2.0.0.16, 2.0.0.17, 2.0.0.18, 2.0.0.19, 2.0.0.20, 2.0.0.21, 2.0_.1, 2.0_.4, 2.0_.5, 2.0_.6, 2.0_.7, 2.0_.9, 2.0_.10, 2.0_8, 3.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.0.3, 3.0.4, 3.0.5, 3.0.6, 3.0.7, 3.0.8, 3.0.9, 3.0beta5, 1.0.9, 1.0.99, 1.1, 1.1.1, 1.1.3, 1.1.5, 1.1.6, 1.1.7, 1.1.8, 1.1.9, 1.1.10, 1.1.11, 1.1.12, 1.1.13, 1.1.15, 0.7.2, 0.7.3, 1.5.0.13, 1.5.0.14, 1.7.1, 1.7.3, 2.0.0.0, 2.0_.12, 2.0_.13, 2.0_.14

Timeline

Official Publish: June 12th, 2009
Last Modified: August 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.