CVE-2009-2064

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-06-15 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-287

Description

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."

Affected products

Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: through 8; 5, 5.01-sp4, 6, 6-sp1, 6-sp2, 7 (+4)
Microsoft Pocket Ie: 1.0, 1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, 2002 (+1)

References

http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=79323
http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/79323/pbp-final-with-update.pdf
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35403
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51186
http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=79323
http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/79323/pbp-final-with-update.pdf
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35403
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51186

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