CVE-2008-1588

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-07-14 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Safari on Apple iPhone before 2.0 and iPod touch before 2.0 allows remote attackers to spoof the address bar via Unicode ideographic spaces in the URL.

Affected products

Apple Safari: all versions

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008//Jul/msg00001.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/jun/msg00002.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/31074
http://secunia.com/advisories/35379
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3613
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30186
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2094/references
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1522
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43732
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008//Jul/msg00001.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/jun/msg00002.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/31074

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