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CVE-2009-3555
- Severity: medium (CVSS 5.8 v2.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 87.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: yes
- Published: 2009-11-09 · updated 2026-06-16
- Weakness: CWE-295
Description
The TLS protocol, and the SSL protocol 3.0 and possibly earlier, as used in Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0, mod_ssl in the Apache HTTP Server 2.2.14 and earlier, OpenSSL before 0.9.8l, GnuTLS 2.8.5 and earlier, Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) 3.12.4 and earlier, multiple Cisco products, and other products, does not properly associate renegotiation handshakes with an existing connection, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to insert data into HTTPS sessions, and possibly other types of sessions protected by TLS or SSL, by sending an unauthenticated request that is processed retroactively by a server in a post-renegotiation context, related to a "plaintext injection" attack, aka the "Project Mogul" issue.
Affected products
- Apache HTTP Server: through 2.2.14
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 8.04, 8.10, 9.04, 9.10, 10.04, 10.10
- Debian Linux: 4.0, 5.0, 6.0, 7.0, 8.0
- nginx: from 0.1.0 through 0.8.22
- Fedoraproject Fedora: 11, 12, 13, 14
- [UNKNOWN] gnutls: through 2.8.5
- Mozilla NSS: through 3.12.4
- OpenSSL: through 0.9.8k; 1.0
References
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2013-11/0120.html
- http://blog.g-sec.lu/2009/11/tls-sslv3-renegotiation-vulnerability.html
- http://blogs.iss.net/archive/sslmitmiscsrf.html
- http://blogs.sun.com/security/entry/vulnerability_in_tls_protocol_during
- http://clicky.me/tlsvuln
- http://extendedsubset.com/?p=8
- http://extendedsubset.com/Renegotiating_TLS.pdf
- http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01945686
- http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c02436041
- http://itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=emr_na-c02273751
- http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-20491
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//May/msg00001.html
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