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CVE-2009-1060
Unspecified vulnerability in Apple Safari on Mac OS X 10.5.6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors…
- 9.3HighCVSS base score
- 4.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 8.3% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Unspecified vulnerability in Apple Safari on Mac OS X 10.5.6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors triggered by clicking on a link, as demonstrated by Charlie Miller during a PWN2OWN competition at CanSecWest 2009.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 15 years later
· 15 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)
- 4.6% · top 8.3% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
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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
References9
- http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/blog/2009/03/18/pwn2own-2009-day-1---safari-internet-explorer-and-firefox-taken-down-by-four-zero-day-exploits (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://cansecwest.com/index.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 34179 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 52888 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 1021879 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9129978 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- apple-safari-unspecified-code-execution1(49463) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10199652-83.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/blog/2009/02/25/pwn2own-2009 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_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-2009-1061 (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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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2009-1060)Record last updated .