CVE-2010-3796: Apple Mac OS X

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Safari RSS in Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8 and 10.6.x before 10.6.5 does not block Java applets in an RSS feed, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a feed: URL containing an applet that performs DOM modifications.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: version 10.5.8 only; version 10.6.0 only; version 10.6.1 only; version 10.6.2 only; version 10.6.3 only; version 10.6.4 only
• Apple Mac OS X Server: version 10.5.8 only; version 10.6.0 only; version 10.6.1 only; version 10.6.2 only; version 10.6.3 only; version 10.6.4 only

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