CVE-2010-0045

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-03-15 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Apple Safari before 4.0.5 on Windows does not properly validate external URL schemes, which allows remote attackers to open local files and execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML document.

Affected products

Apple Safari: through 4.0.4; 4.0, 4.0-beta, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.3

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010/Mar/msg00000.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4070
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38671
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1023706
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6817
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010/Mar/msg00000.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4070
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38671
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1023706
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6817

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