CVE-2011-3218

Severity: low (CVSS 2.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-10-14 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The "Save for Web" selection in QuickTime Player in Apple Mac OS X through 10.6.8 exports HTML documents that contain an http link to a script file, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks by spoofing the http server during local viewing of an exported document.

Affected products

macOS: through 10.6.8; 10.0, 10.0.0, 10.0.1, 10.0.2, 10.0.3, 10.0.4 (+59)
Apple Mac Os X Server: through 10.6.8; 10.0, 10.0.0, 10.0.1, 10.0.2, 10.0.3, 10.0.4 (+59)

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2011//Oct/msg00003.html
http://osvdb.org/76373
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5002
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5016
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/50085
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/50122
http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2011//Oct/msg00003.html
http://osvdb.org/76373
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5002
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5016
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/50085
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/50122

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