CVE-2009-1690
Use-after-free vulnerability in WebKit, as used in Apple Safari before 4.0, iPhone OS 1.0 through 2.2.1, iPhone OS for iPod touch 1.1…
- 9.3HighCVSS base score
- 6.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 6.1% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Use-after-free vulnerability in WebKit, as used in Apple Safari before 4.0, iPhone OS 1.0 through 2.2.1, iPhone OS for iPod touch 1.1 through 2.2.1, Google Chrome 1.0.154.53, and possibly other products, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) by setting an unspecified property of an HTML tag that causes child elements to be freed and later accessed when an HTML error occurs, related to "recursion in certain DOM event handlers."
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 21 days later
· 21 days later
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)
- 6.6% · top 6.1% of all CVEs (11 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
References28
- USN-822-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3639 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 43068 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2009-8039 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- MDVSA-2009:330 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- ADV-2009-1621 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- ADV-2011-0212 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11009 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- APPLE-SA-2009-06-08-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
- 35260 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 20090608 Multiple Vendor WebKit Error Handling Use After Free Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_IDEFENSEx_transferred
- FEDORA-2009-8046 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- ADV-2009-1522 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 37746 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 1022345 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 36790 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- APPLE-SA-2009-06-17-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
- DSA-1950 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- SUSE-SR:2011:002 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 35379 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 36062 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- USN-857-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- 36057 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2009-8049 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3613 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- USN-836-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- 54990 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- FEDORA-2009-8020 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_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-2009-1685 (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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