Hi,
Safari prior to version 4 may permit an evil web page to steal
arbitrary XML data cross-domain.
This is accomplished by abusing a relatively obscure cross-domain
access point which was completely missing a cross-domain access check.
The access point in question is the document() function in XSL. This
is best illustrated with a sample evil XSL file which abuses this
function:
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:str="http://exslt.org/strings" extension-element-prefixes="str">
Below, you should see e-mail stolen cross-domain!
To mount the attack, the attacker would serve a web page which has XML
MIME type and requests to be styled by the evil stylesheet:
irrelevant
There are a number of interesting XML-based formats you might want to
steal including authenticated RSS, XML-formatted AJAX-y responses, and
XHTML.
Full technical details: http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2009-008.html
Blog post: http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2009/06/apples-safari-4-also-fixes-cross-domain.html
(includes 1-click demo)
Cheers
Chris