CVE-2009-0744

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2009-02-27 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Apple Safari 4 Beta build 528.16 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a feeds: URI beginning with a (1) % (percent), (2) { (open curly bracket), (3) } (close curly bracket), (4) ^ (caret), (5) ` (backquote), or (6) | (pipe) character, followed by an & (ampersand) character.

Affected products

Apple Safari: 4.0-beta

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/501229/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33909
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/48943
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6066
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/501229/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33909
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/48943
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6066

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