CVE-2010-1414· NVD / CVE Program· CNA apple

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

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 39/100)

The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 6.6% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 93.7% of all records.
According to the record, no fixed version is available yet.

Low priority for now. Update when a fix is released; follow the vendor's advisory.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

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 removeChild DOM method.

CriticalCVSS 9.3 · v2.0—No exploit No fix recorded

pre-auth RCE

Published: Jun 11, 2010
Updated: Jun 16, 2026
EPSS: 6.7% · 94th percentile
CWE: CWE-399

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Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS: 37 / 40 · 9.3 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 2 / 30 · 6.7%

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Vendor	Product	CPE
apple	safari	cpe:2.3:a:apple:safari
apple	webkit	cpe:2.3:a:apple:webkit
apple	mac os x	cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x
apple	mac os x server	cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x_server
microsoft	windows 7	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_7
microsoft	windows vista	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_vista
microsoft	windows xp	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_xp

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

apple safariup to 4.0.5 inclusive
apple safari4.0
apple safari4.0.0b
apple safari4.0.1
apple safari4.0.2
apple safari4.0.3
apple safari4.0.4
apple webkitall versions

Same product

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Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

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Timeline

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No dated events beyond publication.

EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

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No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

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Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

If successful

Confidentiality: C · data can be read
Integrity: C · data or configuration can be modified
Availability: C · the service can be disrupted

Attack complexity: M
Confidentiality impact: C
Integrity impact: C
Availability impact: C

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-399 · Resource Management Errors

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

nvd-primary

Attack context

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Change log

No changes recorded on tracked fields yet. Score, KEV, exploit maturity and fix status changes appear here.

References

lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Jun/msg00002.html

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