CVE-2015-1155

medium

Published 2015-05-08 · Modified 2026-05-06

💬 Discuss on Community ✚ Propose mitigation

CVSS v3

—

CVSS v4 NEW

—

not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.3

Description

The history implementation in WebKit, as used in Apple Safari before 6.2.6, 7.x before 7.1.6, and 8.x before 8.0.6, allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and read arbitrary files via a crafted web site.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Metasploit modules

auxiliary_gather/safari_file_url_navigation rank 300

Mac OS X Safari file:// Redirection Sandbox Escape

Source fetch failed: fetch_error — view the original via the link above.

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
macos		affected

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
apple	safari	`{"endIncluding":"6.2.5"}`
apple	safari	`7.0`
apple	safari	`7.0.1`
apple	safari	`7.0.2`
apple	safari	`7.0.3`
apple	safari	`7.0.4`
apple	safari	`7.0.5`
apple	safari	`7.0.6`
apple	safari	`7.1.0`
apple	safari	`7.1.1`
apple	safari	`7.1.2`
apple	safari	`7.1.3`
apple	safari	`7.1.4`
apple	safari	`7.1.5`
apple	safari	`8.0.0`
apple	safari	`8.0.1`
apple	safari	`8.0.2`
apple	safari	`8.0.3`
apple	safari	`8.0.4`
apple	safari	`8.0.5`

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.