Detections
Analytics
CVE-2009-2072
medium
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.
References
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35411
http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/79323/pbp-final-with-update.pdf
http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=79323