CVE-2007-0478
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3EPSS 1.7%EU EUVD
WebCore on Apple Mac OS X 10.3.9 and 10.4.10, as used in Safari, does not properly parse HTML comments in TITLE elements, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks and bypass some XSS protection schemes by embedding certain HTML tags within an HTML comment.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-79
- EPSS score
- 1.7% (78th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2007-0476)
- Published
- January 25, 2007
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2007-0476 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- apple / mac os x
- apple / mac os x
- apple / safari
- apple / webcore
References
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306172
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2007/Jul/msg00004.html
- http://osvdb.org/32712
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23893(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26235(Vendor Advisory)
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1018494
- http://www.beanfuzz.com/wordpress/?p=99
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/457763/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25159
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2732
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31846
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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