Collected research

Apple's Safari 4 fixes local file theft attack

Chris Evans · scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com

Notes that Safari 4 fixed an XXE attack against the parsing of XSL XML, which let a remote page read local files; demos are given for Safari 3 on MacOS and Windows. Observes that Safari 3 resisted XXE across XmlHttpRequest, XML pretty-printing, SVG and E4X, and that only the obscure XSL parser was vulnerable. Full details are in CESA-2009-006.

Record

Researcher

Chris Evans

Published by

scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com

Topic

Browser

In the archive

• Collected in the 2009 research round

Related sources

• Safari local-file theft: Mac
• Safari local-file theft: Windows

Tags

• xxe
• info-leak
• sop-bypass
• same-origin-policy
• mitigation
• owasp-a01-2021
• owasp-a03-2021

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