CVE-2009-1688

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2009-06-10 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in WebKit in Apple Safari before 4.0, iPhone OS 1.0 through 2.2.1, and iPhone OS for iPod touch 1.1 through 2.2.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors related to determining a security context through an approach that is not the "HTML 5 standard method."

Affected products

Apple Safari: through 4.0_beta; through 3.2.3; 0.8, 0.9, 1.0, 1.0.3, 1.1, 1.2 (+18)

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Jun/msg00005.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/jun/msg00002.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00006.html
http://osvdb.org/54986
http://secunia.com/advisories/35379
http://secunia.com/advisories/43068
http://securitytracker.com/id?1022344
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3613
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3639
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35260
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35320
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1522

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