CVE-2005-4504 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the KHTMLParser component of Apple Mac OS X 10.4.3 and earlier, impacting applications like Safari and TextEdit. An attacker can trigger this by providing a specially crafted HTML file containing a large ROWSPAN attribute within a TD tag, leading to excessive memory consumption and an application crash. With a CVSS score of 7.8, this vulnerability is considered highly severe due to its network-based attack vector and complete availability impact. While not actively exploited in the wild or on the CISA KEV catalog, public exploit code exists, and its FAUCET Risk Score of 97/100 indicates a high potential for exploitation, despite minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:apple:safari:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:apple:safari:1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:apple:safari:1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:apple:safari:1.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.2.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:apple:safari:1.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
No social media mentions found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.