VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2011-3230

medium
Published 2011-10-14 · 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
7.8

Description

Apple Safari before 5.1.1 on Mac OS X does not enforce an intended policy for file: URLs, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted web site.

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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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-17986 remote osx verified
Metasploit · 2011-10-17

Apple Safari - 'file://' Arbitrary Code Execution (Metasploit)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Metasploit modules

exploit_osx/browser/safari_file_policy rank 300
Apple Safari file:// Arbitrary Code Execution
Source fetch failed: fetch_error — view the original via the link above.

OS impact
macos macOS Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Not affected —

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
macos applesafari
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 applesafari1.0b1
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 applesafari3.1.1b
macos applesafari3.1.2
macos applesafari3.1.2b
macos applesafari3.2.0
macos applesafari3.2.0b
macos applesafari3.2.1
macos applesafari3.2.1b
macos applesafari3.2.2
macos applesafari3.2.2b
macos applesafari4.0
macos applesafari4.0.0b
macos applesafari4.0.1
macos applesafari4.0.2
macos applesafari4.0.3
macos applesafari4.0.4
macos applesafari4.0.5
macos applesafari4.1
macos applesafari4.1.1
macos applesafari4.1.2
macos applesafari5.0
macos applesafari5.0.1
macos applesafari5.0.2
macos applesafari5.0.3
macos applesafari5.0.4
macos applesafari5.0.5
macos applesafari5.0.6

References

CWEs

CWE-264

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