CVE-2005-0976

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2005-05-02 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

AppleWebKit (WebCore and WebKit), as used in multiple products such as Safari 1.2 and OmniGroup OmniWeb 5.1, allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via the XMLHttpRequest Javascript component, as demonstrated using automatically mounted disk images and file:// URLs.

Affected products

Apple Safari: 1.2
Hmdt Shiira: 0.93
Omnigroup Omniweb: 5.1

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005/Apr/msg00000.html
http://remahl.se/david/vuln/001/
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005/Apr/msg00000.html
http://remahl.se/david/vuln/001/

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