CVE-2008-4216: Apple Safari

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 8.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The plug-in interface in WebKit in Apple Safari before 3.2 does not prevent plug-ins from accessing local URLs, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via vectors that "launch local files."

Affected products

• Apple Safari: any version; up to and including 3.1.2; version 0.8 only; version 0.9 only; version 1.0 only; version 1.0.3 only; …

Published 2008-11-17. Last modified 2026-06-16.