CVE-2009-2066

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.0% 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

Apple Safari 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

Apple Safari: through 3.2.1; 0.8, 0.9, 1.0, 1.0-beta, 1.0-beta2, 1.0.0 (+59)

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/51187
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/51187

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