CVE-2009-2068

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% 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

Google Chrome 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

Opera Software AS Opera for Android: 5..10, 5.0, 5.0-beta_2, 5.0-beta_3, 5.0-beta_4, 5.0-beta_5 (+69)

References

http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=79323
http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/79323/pbp-final-with-update.pdf
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51192
http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=79323
http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/79323/pbp-final-with-update.pdf
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51192

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