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CVE-2009-1725

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-189 Numeric Errors
Publication date:
09/07/2009
Last modified:
09/04/2025

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

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 9.30 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0
9.30
Severity 2.0
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:apple:safari:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 4.0.1 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:apple:safari:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apple:safari:2.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apple:safari:2.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apple:safari:2.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apple:safari:2.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apple:safari:2.0.3:417.8:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apple:safari:2.0.3:417.9:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apple:safari:2.0.3:417.9.2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apple:safari:2.0.3:417.9.3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apple:safari:2.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apple:safari:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apple:safari:3.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apple:safari:3.0.0b:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:apple:safari:3.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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