Vulnerability in Apple Safari

CVE-2012-3697

WebKit in Apple Safari before 6.0 does not properly handle file: URLs, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended sandbox restrictions and read arbitrary files by leveraging a WebProcess compromise.

Published · last modified .

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 7.1 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.018 (78.1th percentile), scored .

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 78th percentile — 78.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2012-3697: held from 0.018 to 0.018.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.018 · newest: 0.018 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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