Auth bypass in Microsoft Ie
CVE-2009-2057
Microsoft Internet Explorer before 8 uses the HTTP Host header to determine the context of a document provided in a (1) 4xx or (2) 5xx CONNECT response from a proxy server, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to execute arbitrary web…
Vulnerability class: Broken Authentication
EPSS: 0.030 (85.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Microsoft Ie — versions 5.0, 5.22, 6.0
- Microsoft Internet_explorer — versions 3.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- cve@mitre.org (Exploit, x_refsource_MISC)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC)