CVE-2009-1701: Apple iPhone OS

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 7.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Use-after-free vulnerability in the JavaScript DOM 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 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) by destroying a document.body element that has an unspecified XML container with elements that support the dir attribute.

Affected products

• Apple iPhone OS: version 1.0.0 only; version 1.0.1 only; version 1.0.2 only; version 1.1.0 only; version 1.1.1 only; version 1.1.2 only; …
• Apple Ipod Touch: any version
• Apple Safari: up to and including 3.2.2; version 2.0 only; version 2.0.0 only; version 2.0.1 only; version 2.0.2 only; version 2.0.3 only; …

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