CVE-2011-0214: Apple Cfnetwork

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

CFNetwork in Apple Safari before 5.0.6 on Windows does not properly handle an untrusted attribute of a system root certificate, which allows remote web servers to bypass intended SSL restrictions via a certificate signed by a blacklisted certification authority.

Affected products

• Apple Cfnetwork: any version
• Apple Safari: up to and including 5.0.5; version 1.0 only; version 1.0.0 only; version 1.0.0b1 only; version 1.0.0b2 only; version 1.0.1 only; …

Published 2011-07-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.