XSS in Apple Mac OS X
CVE-2007-0478
WebCore on Apple Mac OS X 10.3.9 and 10.4.10, as used in Safari, does not properly parse HTML comments in TITLE elements, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks and bypass some XSS protection schemes by embedding certain HTML tags within an HTML comment.
Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.017 (75.9th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 76th percentile — 75.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.017 · newest: 0.017 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Apple Mac OS X — versions 10.3.9, 10.4.10
- Apple Safari
- Apple Webcore
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2732 (vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/23893 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/457763/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2007/Jul/msg00004.html (vendor-advisory)
- osvdb.org/32712 (vdb-entry)
- securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- www.beanfuzz.com/wordpress/
- docs.info.apple.com/article.html
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/25159 (vdb-entry)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31846 (vdb-entry)