PT-2009-4172

CVE-2009-1689

Published

2009-06-10

Updated

2011-02-17

Description by

CVSS 2.0

4.3

Medium

MetricsAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Apple Safari versions prior to 4.0 iPhone OS versions 1.0 through 2.2.1 iPhone OS for iPod touch versions 1.1 through 2.2.1

Description: A cross-site scripting (XSS) issue allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via submission of a form to the "about:blank" URL, leading to security-context replacement.

Recommendations: For Apple Safari versions prior to 4.0, update to version 4.0 or later. For iPhone OS versions 1.0 through 2.2.1, update to a version later than 2.2.1. For iPhone OS for iPod touch versions 1.1 through 2.2.1, update to a version later than 2.2.1.

Exploitability

Exploit

Fix

Impacts

Researchers

Adam Barth

Collin Jackson

Vendors

Affected products

Weakness enumeration

CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (\'Cross-site Scripting\')

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