CVE-2010-1780

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-07-30 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in WebKit 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; and webkitgtk before 1.2.6; allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via vectors related to element focus.

Affected products

Apple Safari: through 5.0; through 4.1; 4.0, 4.0.0b, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.3, 4.0.4 (+1)
Apple Webkit: all versions

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Jul/msg00001.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00003.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Sep/msg00002.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00006.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/41856
http://secunia.com/advisories/42314
http://secunia.com/advisories/43068
http://secunia.com/advisories/43086
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4276
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4334
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4456
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:039

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