CVE-2009-3273: Apple iPhone OS

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

iPhone Mail in Apple iPhone OS, and iPhone OS for iPod touch, does not validate X.509 certificates, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof arbitrary SSL e-mail servers via a crafted certificate.

Affected products

• Apple iPhone OS: version 1.0 only; version 1.0.0 only; version 1.0.1 only; version 1.0.2 only; version 1.1 only; version 1.1.0 only; …

Published 2009-09-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.