CVE-2010-1759
Use-after-free vulnerability in WebKit in Apple Safari before 5.0 on Mac OS X 10.5 through 10.6 and Windows, and before 4.1 on Mac OS X…
- 9.3HighCVSS base score
- 15.7%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 3.1% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Use-after-free vulnerability in WebKit in Apple Safari before 5.0 on Mac OS X 10.5 through 10.6 and Windows, and before 4.1 on Mac OS X 10.4, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via vectors related to the Node.normalize method.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it.
Show the exploits1
Exploit-DB1 entry
- Webkit Normalize Bug - Android 2.2 (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 18446remote, androidpublished 1 Feb 2012Not verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By apple
- 36 days later
· 36 days later
Published
- 14 years later
· 14 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High9.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 15.7% · top 3.1% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 9.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
21
- MDVSA-2011:039 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4220 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- ADV-2010-2722 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 43068 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- USN-1006-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- 41856 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2011-0212 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4225 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- APPLE-SA-2010-06-07-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
- 40196 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 40105 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2010-1373 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7005 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- APPLE-SA-2010-06-16-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
- SUSE-SR:2011:002 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- ADV-2010-1512 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 40620 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- ADV-2011-0552 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 1024067 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4196 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- APPLE-SA-2010-06-21-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2010-1779 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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