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CVE-2009-2204
Unspecified vulnerability in the CoreTelephony component in Apple iPhone OS before 3.0.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary…
- 10.0HighCVSS base score
- 8.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 5.0% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Unspecified vulnerability in the CoreTelephony component in Apple iPhone OS before 3.0.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code, obtain GPS coordinates, or enable the microphone via an SMS message that triggers memory corruption, as demonstrated by Charlie Miller at SyScan '09 Singapore.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 40 days later
· 40 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 | High10.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 8.2% · top 5.0% 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 10.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References10
- APPLE-SA-2009-07-31-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3754 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://www.syscan.org/Sg/program.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-09/MILLER/BHUSA09-Miller-FuzzingPhone-PAPER.pdf (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10278472-83.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 36070 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 1022626 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 35569 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- ADV-2009-2105 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 55687 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_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-2009-2200 (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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