Advisory Details

March 22nd, 2016

Apple Safari Type Confusion Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE ID	CVE-2016-1778
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 events. The issue lies in the processing of the dispatchEvent function. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute arbitrary 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/HT206171
DISCLOSURE TIMELINE	2015-12-17 - Vulnerability reported to vendor 2016-03-22 - Coordinated public release of advisory
CREDIT	0x1byte

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