Access Restriction Bypass Affecting webkit package, versions [0,1.2.17)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
1.24% (86th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-WEBKIT-2384187
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed4 Apr 2011
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 4 Apr 2011

CVE-2011-1425  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade webkit to version 1.2.17 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass xslt.c in XML Security Library (aka xmlsec) before 1.2.17, as used in WebKit and other products, when XSLT is enabled, allows remote attackers to create or overwrite arbitrary files via vectors involving the libxslt output extension and a ds:Transform element during signature verification.

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