CVE-2010-1805

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-09-10 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Apple Safari 4.x before 4.1.2 and 5.x before 5.0.2 on Windows allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse explorer.exe (aka Windows Explorer) program in a directory containing a file that had been downloaded by Safari.

Affected products

Apple Safari: 4.0, 4.0.0b, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.3, 4.0.4 (+4)

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Sep/msg00001.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4333
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/43048
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11956
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Sep/msg00001.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4333
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/43048
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11956

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