Apple Safari Beta Same Origin Policy Violation Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	25355
Class:	Access Validation Error
CVE:	CVE-2007-4431
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Aug 17 2007 12:00AM
Updated:	May 07 2015 05:35PM
Credit:	Gareth Heyes discovered this issue.
Vulnerable:	Apple Safari 3.0.3 Beta for Windows Apple Safari 3.0.3 Beta Apple Safari 3.0.2 Beta for Windows Apple Safari 3.0.2 Beta Apple Safari 3.0.1 Beta for Windows Apple Safari 3.0.1 Beta Apple Safari 3 Beta for Windows Apple Safari 3 Beta
Not Vulnerable:

Apple Safari Beta Same Origin Policy Violation Vulnerability

Apple Safari is susceptible to a vulnerability that allows attacker to violate the same-origin policy. This issue occurs because the application fails to properly enforce the same-origin policy for JavaScript remote data access.

An attacker may create a malicious webpage that can access the properties of another domain. This may lead allow the attacker to obtain sensitive information or launch other attacks against a user of the browser.

Safari 3 beta is vulnerable to this issue.

Apple Safari Beta Same Origin Policy Violation Vulnerability

A proof-of-concept website is available to demonstrate this issue:

http://www.businessinfo.co.uk/labs/SafariBetaZeroDay/safaribetazeroday.html

Apple Safari Beta Same Origin Policy Violation Vulnerability

Solution:
Currently we are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches for this issue. If you feel we are in error or if you are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected].

Apple Safari Beta Same Origin Policy Violation Vulnerability

References:

• Safari beta zero day (Gareth Heyes)
  
• Safari Cross Domain Access. (Ronald Heathland)
  
• Safari Homepage (Apple)