CVE-2007-2401 EXPLOIT
4.3
MEDIUM · CVSS 2.0 · EPSS 7.1% (pctl 94)
Patch early
A public exploit exists.
Description
CRLF injection vulnerability in WebCore in Apple Mac OS X 10.3.9, 10.4.9 and later, and iPhone before 1.0.1, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers via LF characters in an XMLHttpRequest request, which are not filtered when serializing headers via the setRequestHeader function. NOTE: this issue can be leveraged for cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
Scoring
| CVSS | 4.3 (MEDIUM, v2.0) |
|---|---|
| Vector | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
| EPSS | 7.06% — more likely to be exploited than 94% of all CVEs |
| Weakness | CWE-79 |
| On CISA KEV | no |
| Public exploit | yes |
| Published | 2007-06-25 |
| Last modified | 2026-06-16 |
Affected (3)
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| apple | iphone os |
| apple | mac os x |
| apple | mac os x server |
Public exploits
| Source | Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
| exploit-db | Apple WebCore - XMLHTTPRequest Cross-Site Scripting | 2007-06-22 |
References
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305759
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306173
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2007/Jun/msg00003.html
- http://osvdb.org/36449
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25786
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26287
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/845708
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/472198/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24598
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018281
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2296
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2316
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2731
- http://www.westpoint.ltd.uk/advisories/wp-07-0002.txt
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/35017
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305759
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306173
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2007/Jun/msg00003.html
- http://osvdb.org/36449
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25786
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