CVE-2010-3813
apple: no CVSS score yet. EPSS 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
The WebCore::HTMLLinkElement::process function in WebCore/html/HTMLLinkElement.cpp in WebKit, as used in Apple Safari before 5.0.3 on Mac OS X 10.5 through 10.6 and Windows, and before 4.1.3 on Mac OS X 10.4; webkitgtk before 1.2.6; and possibly other products does not verify whether DNS prefetching is enabled when processing an HTML LINK element, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions, as demonstrated by an HTML e-mail message that uses a LINK element for X-Confirm-Reading-To functionality.
- EPSS
- 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 81% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-264
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- apple:safari
- apple:webkit
References
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00002.html
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00003.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/052906.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00006.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42314