National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-0089

Overview

Windows HTTP Services (aka WinHTTP) in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 and SP3, Server 2003 SP1 and SP2, and Vista Gold allows remote web servers to impersonate arbitrary https web sites by using DNS spoofing to "forward a connection" to a different https web site that has a valid certificate matching its own domain name, but not a certificate matching the domain name of the host requested by the user, aka "Windows HTTP Services Certificate Name Mismatch Vulnerability."

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA09-104A

Name: TA09-104A

Hyperlink:http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-104A.html

External Source: MS

Name: MS09-013

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS09-013.mspx

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2009-1027

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1027

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1022041

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022041

External Source: BID

Name: 34437

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34437

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 34677

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/34677

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6027

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6027

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6027

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6027