CVE-2010-1403: Apple Safari

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 8.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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, accesses uninitialized memory during the handling of a use element in an SVG document, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted document containing XML that triggers a parsing error, related to ProcessInstruction.

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.