CVE-2009-1699: Apple iPhone OS

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 29.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The XSL stylesheet implementation 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 does not properly handle XML external entities, which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a crafted DTD, as demonstrated by a file:///etc/passwd URL in an entity declaration, related to an "XXE attack."

Affected products

• Apple iPhone OS: from 1.0.0, up to and including 2.2.1
• Apple Safari: before 4.0 (fixed in 4.0)
• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 8.10 only; version 9.04 only
• Opensuse Opensuse: version 11.2 only; version 11.3 only

Published 2009-06-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.