CVE-2007-2401
CRLF injection vulnerability in WebCore in Apple Mac OS X 10.3.9, 10.4.9 and later, and iPhone before 1.0.1, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers via LF characters in an XMLHttpRequest request, which are not filtered when serializing headers via the setRequestHeader function. NOTE: this issue can be leveraged for cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-79
- EPSS score
- 7.1% (94th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2007-2396)
- Published
- June 25, 2007
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2007-2396 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- apple / iphone os
- apple / mac os x
- apple / mac os x
- apple / mac os x server
- apple / mac os x server
References
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305759
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306173
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2007/Jun/msg00003.html(Patch)
- http://osvdb.org/36449
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25786(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26287(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/845708(US Government Resource)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/472198/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24598(Patch)
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018281(Patch)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2296
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2316
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2731
- http://www.westpoint.ltd.uk/advisories/wp-07-0002.txt(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/35017
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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