CVE-2010-3813: Apple Safari

Medium severity, CVSS 5.8. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The WebCore::HTMLLinkElement::process function in WebCore/html/HTMLLinkElement.cpp in WebKit, as used in Apple Safari before 5.0.3 on Mac OS X 10.5 through 10.6 and Windows, and before 4.1.3 on Mac OS X 10.4; webkitgtk before 1.2.6; and possibly other products does not verify whether DNS prefetching is enabled when processing an HTML LINK element, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions, as demonstrated by an HTML e-mail message that uses a LINK element for X-Confirm-Reading-To functionality.

Affected products

• Apple Safari: up to and including 5.0.2; version 5.0 only; version 5.0.1 only; up to and including 4.1.2; version 1.0 only; version 1.0.0 only; …
• Apple Webkit: any version

Published 2010-11-22. Last modified 2026-06-16.