Title: Apple Safari Web Browser HTML Form Status Bar Misrepresentation Vulnerability
Severity: MODERATE
Description:
A vulnerability has been identified in Apple Safari Web Browser that allows an attacker to misrepresent the status bar in the browser, allowing vulnerable users to be mislead into following a link to a malicious site.
The issue presents itself when an attacker creates an HTML form with the submit 'value' property set to a legitimate site and the 'action' property set to the attacker-specified site. The malicious form could also be embedded in a link using the HTML Anchor tag and specifying the legitimate site as the 'href' property.
As a result, the attacker-supplied link would point to the legitimate site and the status bar would display the address of the legitimate site as well. This could aid in exploitation of other known browser vulnerabilities as the attacker now has a means to surreptitiously lure a victim user to a malicious site.
This vulnerability was previously reported to affect Microsoft Internet Explorer in BID 10023 (Microsoft Internet Explorer HTML Form Status Bar Misrepresentation Vulnerability); this issue is also reported to affect the Safari Web Browser.
Affected Products:
- Apple Mac OS X 10.2.0
- Apple Mac OS X 10.2.1
- Apple Mac OS X 10.2.2
- Apple Mac OS X 10.2.3
- Apple Mac OS X 10.2.4
- Apple Mac OS X 10.2.5
- Apple Mac OS X 10.2.6
- Apple Mac OS X 10.2.7
- Apple Mac OS X 10.2.8
- Apple Mac OS X 10.3.0
- Apple Mac OS X 10.3.1
- Apple Mac OS X 10.3.2
- Apple Mac OS X 10.3.3
- Apple Mac OS X 10.3.4
- Apple Mac OS X 10.3.5
- Apple Mac OS X 10.3.6
- Apple Mac OS X 10.3.7
- Apple Mac OS X Server 10.2.0
- Apple Mac OS X Server 10.2.1
- Apple Mac OS X Server 10.2.2
- Apple Mac OS X Server 10.2.3
- Apple Mac OS X Server 10.2.4
- Apple Mac OS X Server 10.2.5
- Apple Mac OS X Server 10.2.6
- Apple Mac OS X Server 10.2.7
- Apple Mac OS X Server 10.2.8
- Apple Mac OS X Server 10.3.0
- Apple Mac OS X Server 10.3.1
- Apple Mac OS X Server 10.3.2
- Apple Mac OS X Server 10.3.3
- Apple Mac OS X Server 10.3.4
- Apple Mac OS X Server 10.3.5
- Apple Mac OS X Server 10.3.6
- Apple Mac OS X Server 10.3.7
- Apple Safari 1.0.0
- Apple Safari 1.1.0
- Apple Safari 1.2.0
- Apple Safari 1.2.1
- Apple Safari 1.2.2
- Apple Safari 1.2.3
- Apple Safari Beta 2
References:
- Apple: Safari Homepage
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