CVE-2016-4618
medium
CVSS v3
6.1
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
6.1
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Safari Reader in Apple iOS before 10 and Safari before 10 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted web site, aka "Universal XSS (UXSS)."
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
71%
Patch ETA
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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 withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| macos | affected | |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| apple | safari | 9.1.3 | |
References
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Sep/msg00007.html
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Sep/msg00008.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93053
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036854
- https://support.apple.com/HT207143
- https://support.apple.com/HT207157
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Sep/msg00007.html
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Sep/msg00008.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93053
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036854
- https://support.apple.com/HT207143
- https://support.apple.com/HT207157
CWEs
CWE-79
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.