CVE-2009-2071 Security feature bypass in n/a

What is CVE-2009-2071?

CVE-2009-2071 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Google Chrome, published on 15 Jun 2009. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Google Chrome before 1.0.154.53 displays a cached certificate for a (1) 4xx or (2) 5xx CONNECT response page returned by a proxy server, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof an arbitrary https site by letting a browser obtain a valid certificate from this site during one request, and then sending the browser a crafted 502 response page upon a subsequent request.

Weakness: CWE-287

Which versions are affected by CVE-2009-2071?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Chrome.

How do I fix CVE-2009-2071?

No fix has been published for CVE-2009-2071 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2009-2071 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2009-2071 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-xq44-w95m-vr58.