CVE-2010-3796

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-11-16 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

Safari RSS in Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8 and 10.6.x before 10.6.5 does not block Java applets in an RSS feed, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a feed: URL containing an applet that performs DOM modifications.

Affected products

macOS: 10.5.8, 10.6.0, 10.6.1, 10.6.2, 10.6.3, 10.6.4
Apple Mac Os X Server: 10.5.8, 10.6.0, 10.6.1, 10.6.2, 10.6.3, 10.6.4

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00000.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4435
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00000.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4435

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