CVE-2009-2072

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% 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

Apple Safari does not require a cached certificate before displaying a lock icon for an https web site, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof an arbitrary https site by sending the browser a crafted (1) 4xx or (2) 5xx CONNECT response page for an https request sent through a proxy server.

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/35411
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/35411

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