From: Joe Orton
As originally specified, all versions of the SSL and TLS protocols -(up to and including TLS/1.2) were vulnerable to a Man-in-the-Middle -attack -(CVE-2009-3555) -during a renegotiation. This vulnerability allowed an attacker to -"prefix" a chosen plaintext to the HTTP request as seen by the web -server. A protocol extension was developed which fixed this -vulnerability if supported by both client and server.
- -If
If this directive is enabled, SSL connections will be vulnerable to -the Man-in-the-Middle prefix attack as described -in CVE-2009-3555.
-The SSL_SECURE_RENEG
environment variable can be used
-from an SSI or CGI script to determine whether secure renegotiation is
-supported for a given SSL connection.