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CVE-2012-3713

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2012-09-20 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Apple Safari before 6.0.1 does not properly handle the Quarantine attribute of HTML documents, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to read arbitrary files by leveraging the presence of a downloaded document.

Affected products

• Apple Safari: through 6.0; 1.0, 1.0-beta, 1.0-beta2, 1.0.0, 1.0.0b1, 1.0.0b2 (+83)

References

• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Sep/msg00005.html
• http://osvdb.org/85652
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5502
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55624
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78679
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Sep/msg00005.html
• http://osvdb.org/85652
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5502
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55624
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78679

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