Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-0585

Original release date:03/08/2012

Last revised:03/09/2012

Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS v2 Base Score:5.0 (MEDIUM)(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N) (legend)

Impact Subscore: 2.9

Exploitability Subscore: 10.0

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Access Vector: Network exploitable

Access Complexity: Low

Authentication: Not required to exploit

Impact Type:Allows unauthorized modification

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External Source: APPLE

Name: APPLE-SA-2012-03-07-2

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Mar/msg00001.html