Auth bypass in Microsoft Internet Explorer
CVE-2009-2064
Microsoft Internet Explorer 8, and possibly other versions, detects http content in https web pages only when the top-level frame uses https, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to execute arbitrary web script, in an https site's context, by modifying an http page to include an https iframe that references a script file on an http site, related to "HTTP-Intended-but-HTTPS-Loadable (HPIHSL) pages."
Vulnerability class: Broken Authentication
EPSS: 0.043 (90.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Microsoft Internet_explorer — versions 5, 5.01, 6
- Microsoft Pocket_ie — versions 1.0, 1.1, 2.0
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC)