PT-2009-4188 · Apple · Safari

Billy Rios · Published 2009-06-10 · Updated 2009-06-19 · CVE-2009-1708

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

9.3

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Apple Safari versions prior to 4.0

Description: The issue allows remote attackers to open arbitrary local help files and execute arbitrary code or obtain sensitive information via a crafted call to the open-help-anchor URL handler, which is not prevented by the software.

Recommendations: For versions prior to 4.0, update to version 4.0 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2009-1708

Affected Products

Safari

References · 9

• 🔥 http://securityfocus.com/bid/35260 · Exploit
• http://secunia.com/advisories/35379 · Vendor Advisory
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3613 · Vendor Advisory
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1522 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/jun/msg00002.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-1708 · Security Note
• http://osvdb.org/55011 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/35351 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1022345 · Note