Apple Safari WebCore Web Inspector security bypass
| safari-webinspector-security-bypass (41331) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
Apple Safari could allow a remote attacker to bypass cross-domain security restrictions, caused by a vulnerability within the WebCore Web Inspector component. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, a remote attacker could bypass policy restrictions and allow injection of script that will run in other domains and read the victim's file system. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to possibly perform cross-site scripting attacks and launch further attacks on the vulnerable system.
Platforms Affected:
- Apple, Mac OS X 10.4.11
- Apple, Mac OS X 10.5.2
- Apple, Safari 3
- Apple, Safari 3 Beta
- Apple, Safari 3.0
- Apple, Safari 3.0.1 Beta
- Apple, Safari 3.0.1
- Apple, Safari 3.0.2
- Apple, Safari 3.0.2 Beta
- Apple, Safari 3.0.3
- Apple, Safari 3.0.4 Beta
- Apple, Safari 3.0.4
Remedy:
Upgrade to the latest version of Apple Safari (3.1 or later), available from the Apple Web site. See References.
Consequences:
Gain Access
References:
- Apple Web site, About the security content of Safari 3.1 at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307563.
- BID-28290: RETIRED: Apple Safari Prior to 3.1 Multiple Security Vulnerabilities
- BID-28347: Apple Safari Web Inspector Remote Code Injection Vulnerability
- CVE-2008-1004: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in WebCore, as used in Apple Safari before 3.1, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unknown vectors related to the Web Inspector.
- FrSIRT/ADV-2008-0920: Apple Safari Command Execution and Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities
- SA29393: Apple Safari Multiple Vulnerabilities
- SECTRACK ID: 1019653: Safari Multiple Input Validation and Processing Bugs Permit Cross-Site Scripting Attacks
Reported:
Mar 18, 2008
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