VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2010-3813

medium
Published 2010-11-22 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.8

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
macos macOS Fixed 29 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
10.6.5 Not affected —
10.6.4 Not affected —
10.6.3 Not affected —
10.6.2 Not affected —
10.6.1 Not affected —
10.6.0 Not affected —
10.5.8 Not affected —
10.5.7 Not affected —
10.5.6 Not affected —
10.5.5 Not affected —
10.5.4 Not affected —
10.5.3 Not affected —
10.5.2 Not affected —
10.5.1 Not affected —
10.5.0 Not affected —
10.5 Not affected —
10.4.11 Not affected —
10.4.10 Not affected —
10.4.9 Not affected —
10.4.8 Not affected —
10.4.7 Not affected —
10.4.6 Not affected —
10.4.5 Not affected —
10.4.4 Not affected —
10.4.3 Not affected —
10.4.2 Not affected —
10.4.1 Not affected —
10.4.0 Not affected —
10.4 Not affected —
windows Windows Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Not affected —

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
macos applesafari{"endIncluding":"5.0.2"}
macos applesafari5.0
macos applesafari5.0.1
macos applewebkit
macos applesafari1.0
macos applesafari1.0.0
macos applesafari1.0.0b1
macos applesafari1.0.0b2
macos applesafari1.0.1
macos applesafari1.0.2
macos applesafari1.0.3
macos applesafari1.1
macos applesafari1.1.0
macos applesafari1.1.1
macos applesafari1.2
macos applesafari1.2.0
macos applesafari1.2.1
macos applesafari1.2.2
macos applesafari1.2.3
macos applesafari1.2.4
macos applesafari1.2.5
macos applesafari1.3
macos applesafari1.3.0
macos applesafari1.3.1
macos applesafari1.3.2
macos applesafari2
macos applesafari2.0
macos applesafari2.0.0
macos applesafari2.0.1
macos applesafari2.0.2
macos applesafari2.0.3
macos applesafari2.0.4
macos applesafari3
macos applesafari3.0
macos applesafari3.0.0
macos applesafari3.0.0b
macos applesafari3.0.1
macos applesafari3.0.1b
macos applesafari3.0.2
macos applesafari3.0.2b
macos applesafari3.0.3
macos applesafari3.0.3b
macos applesafari3.0.4
macos applesafari3.0.4b
macos applesafari3.1.0
macos applesafari3.1.0b
macos applesafari3.1.1
macos applesafari3.1.2
macos applesafari3.2.0
macos applesafari3.2.1
macos applesafari3.2.2
macos applesafari4.1
macos applesafari4.1.1

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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