CVE-2009-1709: Apple Safari

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 6.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Use-after-free vulnerability in the garbage-collection implementation in WebCore in WebKit in Apple Safari before 4.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap corruption and application crash) via an SVG animation element, related to SVG set objects, SVG marker elements, the targetElement attribute, and unspecified "caches."

Affected products

• Apple Safari: up to and including 4.0_beta; version 0.8 only; version 0.9 only; version 1.0 only; version 1.0.3 only; version 1.1 only; …

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