CVE-2009-2200: Apple Safari

High severity, CVSS 7.1. EPSS: 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

WebKit in Apple Safari before 4.0.3 does not properly restrict the URL scheme of the pluginspage attribute of an EMBED element, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to launch arbitrary file: URLs and obtain sensitive information via a crafted HTML document.

Affected products

• Apple Safari: up to and including 4.0.2; version 0.8 only; version 0.9 only; version 1.0 only; version 1.0.0 only; version 1.0.0b1 only; …

Published 2009-08-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.