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CRLF injection vulnerability in WebKit in Apple Safari...

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published May 2, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 31, 2023

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

CRLF injection vulnerability in WebKit in Apple Safari before 4.0, iPhone OS 1.0 through 2.2.1, and iPhone OS for iPod touch 1.1 through 2.2.1 allows remote attackers to inject HTTP headers and bypass the Same Origin Policy via a crafted HTML document, related to cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks that depend on communication with arbitrary web sites on the same server through use of XMLHttpRequest without a Host header.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jun 10, 2009
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 2, 2022
Last updated Jan 31, 2023

Severity

Moderate

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

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(41st percentile)

Weaknesses

Improper Input Validation

The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2009-1697

GHSA ID

GHSA-wpgx-8qqv-qrcq

Source code

No known source code

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