CVE-2009-2200

Severity: high (CVSS 7.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-08-12 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

WebKit in Apple Safari before 4.0.3 does not properly restrict the URL scheme of the pluginspage attribute of an EMBED element, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to launch arbitrary file: URLs and obtain sensitive information via a crafted HTML document.

Affected products

Apple Safari: through 4.0.2; 0.8, 0.9, 1.0, 1.0-beta, 1.0-beta2, 1.0.0 (+66)

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Aug/msg00002.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00006.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/43068
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3733
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36024
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022720
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0212
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Aug/msg00002.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00006.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/43068
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3733
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36024

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