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CVE-2012-0585
The Private Browsing feature in Safari in Apple iOS before 5.1 allows remote attackers to bypass intended privacy settings and insert…
Medium5.0EPSS 2.5%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- apple
Description
The Private Browsing feature in Safari in Apple iOS before 5.1 allows remote attackers to bypass intended privacy settings and insert history entries via JavaScript code that calls the (1) pushState or (2) replaceState method.
Timeline
ID reserved
By apple
- 56 days later
· 56 days later
Published
- 12 years later
· 12 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 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.5% · top 15% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (7)
- 1026774 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 48377 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 79964 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- appleios-browsing-sec-bypass(73871) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- APPLE-SA-2012-03-12-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
- 48288 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- APPLE-SA-2012-03-07-2 (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)
- 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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