CVE-2009-1687 is a critical vulnerability affecting WebKit's JavaScript garbage collector in Apple Safari and iPhone OS versions prior to 4.0 and 2.2.1 respectively. It allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service through memory corruption by exploiting improper handling of allocation failures via a crafted HTML document. With a CVSS score of 9.3, this vulnerability is highly severe, requiring medium attack complexity but offering complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. While no active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion has been observed, its high FAUCET Risk Score of 85/100 indicates its potential danger.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 4.0_betaCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:apple:safari:*:*:mac:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:apple:safari:0.8:*:mac:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.9CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:apple:safari:0.9:*:mac:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:apple:safari:1.0:*:mac:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:apple:safari:1.0.3:*:mac:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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