CVE-2010-1789

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.5% 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-119

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow 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, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a JavaScript string object.

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.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00006.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/42314
http://secunia.com/advisories/43068
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4276
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4456
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/42020
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3046
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0212
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11524
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Jul/msg00001.html

Get alerted when CVE-2010-1789 or the next vulnerability affects your stack