CVE-2009-4186

CRITICAL 9.3CVE-2009-4186 · Published 03/12/2009 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2009-4186 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 9.3) vulnerability affecting safari (apple).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 6.5%, higher than 93.8% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
safari apple	`= 4.0.3`	No fix yet

Description

Stack consumption vulnerability in Apple Safari 4.0.3 on Windows allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a long URI value (aka url) in the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) background property.

References

exploit-db.com/exploits/10102 · Exploit
securityfocus.com/bid/37039 · Exploit
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54487

More vulnerabilities in safari

See all →

Running one of these products? Scan your site to see whether it exposes a vulnerable version.

Scan my site free