CVE-2009-2797: Apple iPhone OS

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 3.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The WebKit component in Safari in Apple iPhone OS before 3.1, and iPhone OS before 3.1.1 for iPod touch, does not remove usernames and passwords from URLs sent in Referer headers, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading Referer logs on a web server.

Affected products

• Apple iPhone OS: before 3.1 (fixed in 3.1); before 3.1.1 (fixed in 3.1.1)
• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 9.10 only; version 10.04 only; version 10.10 only

Published 2009-09-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.