Vulnerability Report

CVE-2010-3813

Title: Apple Webkit

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2010-3813.

CWE Category CWE-264
Published Date Nov 22, 2010
Modified Date Jun 16, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 5.8 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
1.84%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2010-3813: 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.

Impacted Vendors

A
apple 2
W
webkit 1

Reference Links

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 http://secunia.com/advisories/43068 http://secunia.com/advisories/43086 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4455 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4456 http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/63622 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:039 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0177.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3046 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0212 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0216 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0552 https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42500 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=667024 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12293 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 http://secunia.com/advisories/43068 http://secunia.com/advisories/43086 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4455 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4456 http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/63622 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:039 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0177.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3046 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0212 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0216 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0552 https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42500 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=667024 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12293
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
5.8
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2010-3813 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.