CVE-2009-2072: Apple Safari

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Apple Safari does not require a cached certificate before displaying a lock icon for an https web site, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof an arbitrary https site by sending the browser a crafted (1) 4xx or (2) 5xx CONNECT response page for an https request sent through a proxy server.

Affected products

• Apple Safari: up to and including 3.2.1; version 0.8 only; version 0.9 only; version 1.0 only; version 1.0.0 only; version 1.0.0b1 only; …

Published 2009-06-15. Last modified 2026-06-16.