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CVE-2010-0656

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-0656 describes an information disclosure vulnerability in WebKit, affecting Google Chrome and Apple WebKit versions prior to their respective fixes. The flaw allows a local HTML document to trigger a directory listing via an XMLHttpRequest to a file:/// URL, potentially exposing sensitive information. Rated with a CVSS score of 4.3, this medium-complexity vulnerability requires user interaction (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N) to achieve partial confidentiality impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= r51280CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apple:webkit:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 4.0.249.78CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:beta:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.2.149.27CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:0.2.149.27:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.2.149.29CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:0.2.149.29:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.2.149.30CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:0.2.149.30:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.15%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
63.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0115 is in the 27th percentile among its peer group of 19,956 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2010-0656Low

webkit: possible information disclosure via xhr for file:/// URLs

Aug 27, 2009

References

code.google.com / p/chromium/issues/detail
googlechromereleases.blogspot.com / 2010/01/stable-channel-update_25.html
Patch
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041383.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041432.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041436.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00006.html
bugs.webkit.org / show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/41856
secunia.com / advisories/43068
securitytracker.com / id
sites.google.com / a/chromium.org/dev/Home/chromium-security/chromium-security-bugs
Vendor Advisory
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14501
trac.webkit.org / changeset/51295
mandriva.com / security/advisories
securityfocus.com / bid/38372
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-1006-1
vupen.com / english/advisories/2010/2722
vupen.com / english/advisories/2011/0212
vupen.com / english/advisories/2011/0552