National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-1778
Original release date:07/30/2010
Last revised:08/21/2010
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Apple Safari before 5.0.1 on Mac OS X 10.5 through 10.6 and Windows, and before 4.1.1 on Mac OS X 10.4, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an RSS feed.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized modification
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External Source: BID
Name: 42020
Type: Patch Information
External Source: APPLE
Name: APPLE-SA-2010-07-28-1
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4276
Type: Advisory
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11639
References to Check Content
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11639
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5
Technical Details
- Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) (CWE-79)