CVE-2010-1406

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-06-11 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

WebKit in Apple Safari before 5.0 on Mac OS X 10.5 through 10.6 and Windows, and before 4.1 on Mac OS X 10.4, sends an https URL in the Referer header of an http request in certain circumstances involving https to http redirection, which allows remote HTTP servers to obtain potentially sensitive information via standard HTTP logging, a related issue to CVE-2010-0660.

Affected products

Apple Safari: through 4.0.5; 4.0, 4.0.0b, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.3, 4.0.4
Apple Webkit: all versions

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010/Jun/msg00000.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010/Jun/msg00003.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00006.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/40105
http://secunia.com/advisories/41856
http://secunia.com/advisories/43068
http://securitytracker.com/id?1024067
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4196
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4225
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:039
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/40620
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1006-1

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