CVE-2008-2317
WebCore in Apple Safari does not properly perform garbage collection of JavaScript document elements, which allows remote attackers to…
- 9.3HighCVSS base score
- 7.7%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 5.3% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
WebCore in Apple Safari does not properly perform garbage collection of JavaScript document elements, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap corruption and application crash) via a reference to the ownerNode property of a copied CSSStyleSheet object of a STYLE element, as originally demonstrated on Apple iPhone before 2.0 and iPod touch before 2.0, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-1590.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 57 days later
· 57 days later
Published
- 16 years later
· 16 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High9.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 7.7% · top 5.3% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 9.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
10
- 20080725 ZDI-08-045: Apple Safari StyleSheet ownerNode Heap Corruption Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- APPLE-SA-2008-11-13 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
- http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-045/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 30186 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 32706 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- APPLE-SA-2008-07-11 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3298 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- ADV-2008-2094 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- ipod-iphone-stylesheets-code-execution(43737) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 31074 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2008-2313 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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