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CVE-2009-1725

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 6.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2009-07-09 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-189

Description

WebKit in Apple Safari before 4.0.2, as used on iPhone OS before 3.1, iPhone OS before 3.1.1 for iPod touch, and other platforms; KHTML in kdelibs in KDE; QtWebKit (aka Qt toolkit); and possibly other products do not properly handle numeric character references, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via a crafted HTML document.

Affected products

• Apple Iphone Os: through 3.0.1; through 3.1; 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.1.0, 1.1.1, 1.1.2 (+13)
• Apple Ipod Touch: all versions
• Apple Safari: through 4.0.1; 2.0, 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.0.3-417.8 (+25)

References

• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Jul/msg00000.html
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Sep/msg00001.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00006.html
• http://osvdb.org/55739
• http://secunia.com/advisories/35758
• http://secunia.com/advisories/36057
• http://secunia.com/advisories/36062
• http://secunia.com/advisories/36347
• http://secunia.com/advisories/36677
• http://secunia.com/advisories/36790
• http://secunia.com/advisories/37746
• http://secunia.com/advisories/43068

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