CVE-2008-1025

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-04-17 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Apple WebKit, as used in Safari before 3.1.1, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted URL with a colon in the hostname portion.

Affected products

Apple Safari: 0.8, 0.9, 1.0, 1.0.3, 1.1, 1.2 (+11)
Apple Webkit: all versions

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008//Jul/msg00001.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Apr/msg00001.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/29846
http://secunia.com/advisories/31074
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1467
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/705529
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28814
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019869
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1250/references
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2094/references
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41862
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008//Jul/msg00001.html

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