CVE-2012-3713: Apple Safari

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Apple Safari before 6.0.1 does not properly handle the Quarantine attribute of HTML documents, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to read arbitrary files by leveraging the presence of a downloaded document.

Affected products

• Apple Safari: any version; up to and including 6.0; version 1.0 only; version 1.0.0 only; version 1.0.0b1 only; version 1.0.0b2 only; …

Published 2012-09-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.