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CVE-2007-2401
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…
Medium4.3EPSS 7.1%
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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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 7.1% · top 5.8% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (15)
- ADV-2007-2316 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306173 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- macos-xmlhttprequest-header-injection(35017) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- APPLE-SA-2007-06-22 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
- 25786 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://www.westpoint.ltd.uk/advisories/wp-07-0002.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 26287 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 20070625 Safari XMLHttpRequest HTTP header injection (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305759 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 24598 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- ADV-2007-2731 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 36449 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 1018281 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- ADV-2007-2296 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- VU#845708 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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