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CVE-2010-3813

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.8 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2010-11-22 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The WebCore::HTMLLinkElement::process function in WebCore/html/HTMLLinkElement.cpp in WebKit, as used in Apple Safari before 5.0.3 on Mac OS X 10.5 through 10.6 and Windows, and before 4.1.3 on Mac OS X 10.4; webkitgtk before 1.2.6; and possibly other products does not verify whether DNS prefetching is enabled when processing an HTML LINK element, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions, as demonstrated by an HTML e-mail message that uses a LINK element for X-Confirm-Reading-To functionality.

Affected products

• Apple Safari: through 5.0.2; through 4.1.2; 5.0, 5.0.1, 1.0, 1.0-beta, 1.0-beta2, 1.0.0 (+55)
• Apple Webkit: all versions

References

• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00002.html
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00003.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/052906.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00006.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/42314
• http://secunia.com/advisories/43068
• http://secunia.com/advisories/43086
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4455
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4456
• http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/63622
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:039
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0177.html

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