THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2008-4231
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2008-4231

Ipod Touch vulnerability

CVSS
9.3
EPSS
5.9%
EPSS pct
92th
Exploited
No known
Safari in Apple iPhone OS 1.0 through 2.1 and iPhone OS for iPod touch 1.1 through 2.1 does not properly handle HTML TABLE elements, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via a crafted HTML document.
Affected vendor
Apple
Affected product
Ipod Touch
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2008-11-25

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, medium attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to complete impact to confidentiality, complete impact to integrity, complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 5.9% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 92% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2008-4231

  • Confirm whether Apple Ipod Touch is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2008-4231.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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