CVE-2010-2264

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.6% 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

The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) implementation in 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, does not properly handle the :visited pseudo-class, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information about visited web pages via a crafted HTML document.

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.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://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:039
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/40620
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/40756
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1006-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1373

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