CVE-2009-2842: Apple Safari

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Apple Safari before 4.0.4 does not properly implement certain (1) Open Image and (2) Open Link menu options, which allows remote attackers to read local HTML files via a crafted web site.

Affected products

• Apple Safari: up to and including 4.0.3; version 1.0 only; version 1.0.0 only; version 1.0.0b1 only; version 1.0.0b2 only; version 1.0.1 only; …

Published 2009-11-13. Last modified 2026-06-16.