Microsoft Internet Explorer 5/5.01/6/7/8 improper authentication
CVSS Meta Temp Score | Current Exploit Price (≈) | CTI Interest Score |
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A vulnerability was found in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5/5.01/6/7/8 (Web Browser). It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown function. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a improper authentication vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-287. When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:
Microsoft Internet Explorer 8, and possibly other versions, 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."
The issue has been introduced in 03/05/2008. The weakness was presented 06/15/2009 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at research.microsoft.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2009-2064. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.
The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 467 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $25k-$100k.
Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.
The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (51186). See 48612, 48611, 48610 and 48609 for similar entries.
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- end of life
CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
CVSSv4
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VulDB Meta Base Score: 6.3VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.0
VulDB Base Score: 6.3
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Exploiting
Class: Improper authenticationCWE: CWE-287
ATT&CK: Unknown
Local: No
Remote: Yes
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Status: Not defined
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Countermeasures
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Timeline
03/05/2008 🔍05/01/2009 🔍
06/15/2009 🔍
06/15/2009 🔍
06/15/2009 🔍
06/23/2009 🔍
03/17/2015 🔍
08/11/2021 🔍
Sources
Vendor: microsoft.comAdvisory: research.microsoft.com
Status: Not defined
CVE: CVE-2009-2064 (🔍)
X-Force: 51186
Vulnerability Center: 22647 - Microsoft Internet Explorer <= 8 HTTPS Loadable Pages Remote Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability, Medium
SecurityFocus: 35403
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Entry
Created: 03/17/2015 23:38Updated: 08/11/2021 18:01
Changes: 03/17/2015 23:38 (42), 05/07/2019 12:42 (11), 08/11/2021 17:54 (1), 08/11/2021 18:01 (7)
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