CVE-2009-2059 Information

Description

Opera possibly before 9.25 uses the HTTP Host header to determine the context of a document provided in a (1) 4xx or (2) 5xx CONNECT response from a proxy server which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to execute arbitrary web script by modifying this CONNECT response aka an \SSL tampering\ attack.

Reference

http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=79323 http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/79323/pbp-final-with-update.pdf

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