Apple iPhone and iPod touch Safari Search History Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	35448
Class:	Unknown
CVE:	CVE-2009-1680
Remote:	No
Local:	Yes
Published:	Jun 17 2009 12:00AM
Updated:	Jun 19 2009 11:29PM
Credit:	Joshua Belsky
Vulnerable:	Apple iPod Touch 2.2.1 Apple iPod Touch 2.0.2 Apple iPod Touch 2.0.1 Apple iPod Touch 1.1.4 Apple iPod Touch 1.1.3 Apple iPod Touch 1.1.2 Apple iPod Touch 1.1.1 Apple iPod Touch 2.2 Apple iPod Touch 2.1 Apple iPod Touch 2.0 Apple iPod Touch 1.1 Apple iPhone 2.2.1 Apple iPhone 2.0.2 Apple iPhone 2.0.1 Apple iPhone 1.1.4 Apple iPhone 1.1.3 Apple iPhone 1.1.2 Apple iPhone 1.1.1 Apple iPhone 1.0.2 Apple iPhone 1.0.1 Apple iPhone 2.2 Apple iPhone 2.1 Apple iPhone 2.0 Apple iPhone 1.1 Apple iPhone 1 Apple iPhone 0
Not Vulnerable:	Apple iPod Touch 3.0 Apple iPhone 3.0

Apple iPhone and iPod touch Safari Search History Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Apple iPhone and iPod touch are prone to an information-disclosure vulnerability.

Successfully exploiting this issue may allow attackers with physical access to an affected device to obtain search history data from the Safari browser. Information harvested may aid in launching further attacks.

NOTE: This issue was previously covered in BID 35414 (Apple iPhone and iPod touch Prior to Version 3.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities), but has been assigned its own record to better document it.

Apple iPhone and iPod touch Safari Search History Information Disclosure Vulnerability

To exploit this issue, an attacker needs physical access to the device.

Apple iPhone and iPod touch Safari Search History Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor has released an advisory and fixes. Please see the references for details.

Apple iPhone and iPod touch Safari Search History Information Disclosure Vulnerability

References:

• iPhone Product Page (Apple)
  
• iPod touch Product Page (Apple)