CVE-2009-2061 describes a critical vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 3.0.10, where a man-in-the-middle attacker could execute arbitrary web script within an HTTPS site's context. This was achieved by manipulating a 3xx HTTP CONNECT response to redirect to a malicious HTTPS site before a successful SSL handshake. The vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 9.3, indicating high severity with complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts, requiring medium attack complexity but no authentication. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 3.0.9CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
No social media mentions found for this CVE.
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No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.