WebKit in Apple Safari before 5.0.4, when the Web Inspector is used, does not properly handle the window.console._inspectorCommandLineAPI property, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a crafted web site.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - WebKit in Apple Safari before 5.0.4, when the Web Inspector is used, does not properly handle the     window.console._inspectorCommandLineAPI property, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to bypass     the Same Origin Policy and conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a crafted web site.
    (CVE-2011-0169)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The remote host has Safari installed.  Versions of Safari earlier than 5.0.4 are potentially affected by several issues in the following component :

  - ImageIO

  - libxml

  - WebKit

The version of Safari installed on the remote Windows host is earlier than 5.0.4.  It therefore is potentially affected by several issues in the following components :

  - ImageIO

  - libxml

  - WebKit

The version of Apple Safari installed on the remote Mac OS X host is earlier than 5.0.4. As such, it is potentially affected by several issues in the following components :

  - libxml

  - WebKit

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
263974	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2011-0169	Nessus	Misc.	medium
5813	Safari < 5.0.4 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus Network Monitor	Web Clients	high
52613	Safari < 5.0.4 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	Windows	high
52612	Mac OS X : Apple Safari < 5.0.4	Nessus	MacOS X Local Security Checks	high

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2011-0169

medium

Tenable Plugins

medium

high

high

high