CVE-2010-0045: Apple Safari

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 4.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Apple Safari before 4.0.5 on Windows does not properly validate external URL schemes, which allows remote attackers to open local files and execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML document.

Affected products

• Apple Safari: up to and including 4.0.4; version 4.0 only; version 4.0.1 only; version 4.0.2 only; version 4.0.3 only

Published 2010-03-15. Last modified 2026-06-16.