CVE-2009-1725 - CVE House
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Status published Critical CVE-2009-1725

WebKit in Apple Safari before 4.0.2, as used on iPhone...

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

safari, iphone os, ipod touch
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 2.0, 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.0.4, 3.0, 3.0.0, 3.0.0b, 3.0.1, 3.0.1b, 3.0.2, 3.0.2b, 3.0.3, 3.0.3b, 3.0.4, 3.0.4b, 3.1.0, 3.1.0b, 3.1.1, 3.1.2, 3.2.0, 3.2.1, 3.2.2, 4.0, 4.0.0b, 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.1.0, 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3, 1.1.4, 1.1.5, 2.1, 2.1.1, 2.2, 2.2.1

Timeline

Official Publish: July 9th, 2009
Last Modified: August 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.