CVE-2009-2815: Apple iPhone OS

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Telephony component in Apple iPhone OS before 3.1 does not properly handle SMS arrival notifications, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and service interruption) via a crafted SMS message.

Affected products

• Apple iPhone OS: up to and including 3.0.1; version 1.0 only; version 1.0.0 only; version 1.0.1 only; version 1.0.2 only; version 1.1 only; …

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