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Safari < 5.1.7 Multiple Vulnerabilities
high Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 6483
Synopsis
The remote host contains a web browser that is affected by several vulnerabilities.Description
The remote host has Safari installed.Versions of Safari earlier than 5.1.7 are reportedly affected by several issues :
- Two unspecified errors that can allow malicious sites to perform cross-site scripting attacks. (CVE-2011-3046, CVE-2011-3056)
- An unspecified memory corruption error exists that can allows malicious sites to crash the application or potentially execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2012-0672)
- A state-tracking issue exists that can allow malicious sites to populate HTML form values of other sites with arbitrary data. (CVE-2012-0676)
Solution
Upgrade to Safari 5.1.7 or later.See Also
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5282
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/May/msg00002.html
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 6483
Family: Web Clients
Published: 5/10/2012
Updated: 3/6/2019
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 5.9
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 9.3
Temporal Score: 7.7
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 8.1
Temporal Score: 7.5
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/a:apple:safari
Patch Publication Date: 5/9/2012
Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/9/2012
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2011-3046, CVE-2011-3056, CVE-2012-0672, CVE-2012-0676