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CVE-2008-4233

12
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-4233 describes a vulnerability in Safari on Apple iPhone OS 1.0-2.1 and iPod touch 1.1-2.1, where a crafted HTML document could bypass the call-approval dialog to initiate arbitrary phone calls. This vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 2.6, indicating network-based attack with high complexity, but only a partial impact on availability (making calls without user consent). There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this decade-old vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apple:safari:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:iphone_os:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:iphone_os:1.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:iphone_os:1.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:iphone_os:1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.6LOW

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
4.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.15%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
80.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0215 is in the 76th percentile among its peer group of 1,506 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.3 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

applevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2008/Nov/msg00002.html
Vendor Advisory
osvdb.org / 50030
secunia.com / advisories/32756
securitytracker.com / id
support.apple.com / kb/HT3318
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/32394
vupen.com / english/advisories/2008/3232