CVE-2010-1783: Apple Safari

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

WebKit in Apple Safari before 5.0.1 on Mac OS X 10.5 through 10.6 and Windows, and before 4.1.1 on Mac OS X 10.4; and webkitgtk before 1.2.6; does not properly handle dynamic modification of a text node, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via a crafted HTML document.

Affected products

• Apple Safari: up to and including 5.0; 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 2010-07-30. Last modified 2026-06-16.