National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-0478

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: XF

Name: safari-html-comment-xss(31846)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/31846

External Source: BID

Name: 25159

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25159

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20070123 Safari Improperly Parses HTML Documents & BlogSpot XSS vulnerability

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/457763/100/0/threaded

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2007-2732

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2007/2732

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.beanfuzz.com/wordpress/?p=99

Hyperlink:http://www.beanfuzz.com/wordpress/?p=99

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1018494

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1018494

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 26235

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/26235

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 23893

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/23893

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 32712

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/32712

External Source: APPLE

Name: APPLE-SA-2007-07-31

Hyperlink:http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2007/Jul/msg00004.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306172

Hyperlink:http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306172