CVE-2009-1725: Apple iPhone OS

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 6.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

WebKit in Apple Safari before 4.0.2, as used on iPhone OS before 3.1, iPhone OS before 3.1.1 for iPod touch, and other platforms; KHTML in kdelibs in KDE; QtWebKit (aka Qt toolkit); and possibly other products do not properly handle numeric character references, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via a crafted HTML document.

Affected products

• Apple iPhone OS: up to and including 3.0.1; 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; …
• Apple Ipod Touch
• Apple Safari: up to and including 4.0.1; 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 2009-07-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.