CVE-2009-1701
Use-after-free vulnerability in the JavaScript DOM implementation in WebKit in Apple Safari before 4.0, iPhone OS 1.0 through 2.2.1, and iPhone OS for iPod touch 1.1 through 2.2.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) by destroying a document.body element that has an unspecified XML container with elements that support the dir attribute.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 9.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-399
- EPSS score
- 7.7% (95th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2009-1696)
- Published
- June 10, 2009
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2009-1696 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- apple / iphone os
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References
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Jun/msg00005.html
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/jun/msg00002.html(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00006.html
- http://osvdb.org/55008
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35379(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43068
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1022345(Patch)
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3613(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3639
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/504172/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35260(Exploit)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35325
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1522(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1621
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0212
- http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-09-033/(Patch)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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