THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2003-0514
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2003-0514

Safari vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
5.4%
EPSS pct
92th
Exploited
No known
Apple Safari allows remote attackers to bypass intended cookie access restrictions on a web application via "%2e%2e" (encoded dot dot) directory traversal sequences in a URL, which causes Safari to send the cookie outside the specified URL subsets, e.g. to a vulnerable application that runs on the same server as the target application.
Affected vendor
Apple
Affected product
Safari
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Published
2004-04-15

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 5.4% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 92% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2003-0514

  • Confirm whether Apple Safari is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2003-0514.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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