CVE-2009-2420: Apple Safari

Medium severity, CVSS 5.8. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Apple Safari 3.2.3 does not properly implement the file: protocol handler, which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files or cause a denial of service (launch of multiple Windows Explorer instances) via vectors involving an unspecified HTML tag, possibly a related issue to CVE-2009-1703.

Affected products

• Apple Safari: version 3.2.3 only

Published 2009-07-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.