CVE-2007-0478
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2007-01-25 00:00
Modified
2024-08-07 12:19
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306172
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2007/Jul/msg00004.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://osvdb.org/32712
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/23893Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/26235Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://securitytracker.com/id?1018494
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.beanfuzz.com/wordpress/?p=99
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/457763/100/0/threaded
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25159
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2732
cve@mitre.orghttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31846
Impacted products
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