CVE-2010-0651

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 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: none known
Published: 2010-02-18 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

WebKit before r52784, as used in Google Chrome before 4.0.249.78 and Apple Safari before 4.0.5, permits cross-origin loading of CSS stylesheets even when the stylesheet download has an incorrect MIME type and the stylesheet document is malformed, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a crafted document.

Affected products

Apple Safari: through 4.0.4
Apple Webkit: through r53524
Google Chrome: through 4.0.249.78

References

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=9877
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/01/stable-channel-update_25.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00006.html
http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2009/12/generic-cross-browser-cross-domain.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/41856
http://secunia.com/advisories/43068
http://securitytracker.com/id?1023506
http://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/Home/chromium-security/chromium-security-bugs
http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/52784
http://websec.sv.cmu.edu/css/css.pdf
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:039
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1006-1

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