CVE-2010-1391: Apple Safari

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 3.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in the (a) Local Storage and (b) Web SQL database implementations in WebKit in Apple Safari before 5.0 on Mac OS X 10.5 through 10.6 and Windows, and before 4.1 on Mac OS X 10.4, allow remote attackers to create arbitrary database files via vectors involving a (1) %2f and .. (dot dot) or (2) %5c and .. (dot dot) in a URL.

Affected products

• Apple Safari: up to and including 4.0.5; version 4.0 only; version 4.0.0b only; version 4.0.1 only; version 4.0.2 only; version 4.0.3 only; …
• Apple Webkit: any version

Published 2010-06-11. Last modified 2026-06-16.