Apple Safari up to 5.1.7 location.href cross site scripting

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A vulnerability was found in Apple Safari up to 5.1.7 (Web Browser) and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is the function location.href. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in WebKit in Apple Safari before 6.0 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by leveraging improper URL canonicalization during the handling of the location.href property.

The weakness was shared 07/25/2012 by Masato Kinugawa (Slawomir Blazek) as HT5400 as confirmed knowledge base article (Apple Security Announce). The advisory is shared for download at support.apple.com. The vendor cooperated in the coordination of the public release. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2012-3695 since 06/19/2012. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. Technical details as well as a private exploit are known. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1059.007.

It is declared as proof-of-concept.

Upgrading to version 6 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The entries 4654, 4645, 4650 and 5585 are related to this item.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 6.3
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Class: Cross site scripting
CWE: CWE-79 / CWE-74 / CWE-707
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Access: Private
Status: Proof-of-Concept

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OpenVAS ID: 802924
OpenVAS Name: Apple Safari Multiple Vulnerabilities - July 2012 (Mac OS X)
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Safari 6
Patch: github.com

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Vendor: apple.com

Advisory: HT5400
Researcher: Masato Kinugawa (Slawomir Blazek)
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2012-3695 (🔍)
SecurityTracker: 1027307
SecurityFocus: 54695 - WebKit CVE-2012-3695 Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
Secunia: 50058 - Apple Safari for Mac OS X Multiple Vulnerabilities, Highly Critical
OSVDB: 84207

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Created: 08/08/2012 13:09
Updated: 04/29/2018 00:08
Changes: 08/08/2012 13:09 (71), 04/29/2018 00:08 (7)
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