Advisory Details

June 21st, 2017

Apple Safari Element Use-After-Free Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE ID	CVE-2017-2530
CVSS SCORE	6.8, AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
AFFECTED VENDORS	Apple
AFFECTED PRODUCTS	Safari
VULNERABILITY DETAILS	This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Apple Safari. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the handling of Element objects. The issue results from the lack of validating the existence of an object prior to performing operations on the object. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code under the context of the current process.
ADDITIONAL DETAILS	Apple has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207804
DISCLOSURE TIMELINE	2017-05-04 - Vulnerability reported to vendor 2017-06-21 - Coordinated public release of advisory
CREDIT	Zheng Huang of the Baidu Security Lab

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