CVE-2006-2019

Apple Safari - Denial of Service via TD Element Rowspan Attribute

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2006-2019. PoCs published by Yannick von Arx.

AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit leverages a vulnerability in Safari 2.0.3 causing a denial-of-service (DoS) condition by triggering excessive resource consumption via a malformed HTML table with an extremely large ROWSPAN value. The attack results in system slowdown and eventual crash of the Safari browser.

Description

Apple Mac OS X Safari 2.0.3, 1.3.1, and possibly other versions allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and crash) via a TD element with a large number in the rowspan attribute.

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WORKING POC VERIFIED
by Yannick von Arx · htmldososx
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/1715

This exploit leverages a vulnerability in Safari 2.0.3 causing a denial-of-service (DoS) condition by triggering excessive resource consumption via a malformed HTML table with an extremely large ROWSPAN value. The attack results in system slowdown and eventual crash of the Safari browser.

Classification
Working Poc 90%
Attack Type
Dos
Complexity
Trivial
Reliability
Reliable
Target: Apple Safari 2.0.3 (417.9.2)
No auth needed
Prerequisites: Victim must open the malicious HTML file in Safari 2.0.3
devstral-2 · analyzed Feb 16, 2026 Full analysis →

References (9)

Core 9
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17674
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/431944/100/0/threaded
Exploit vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015982
Exploit, Third Party Advisory exploit x_refsource_exploit-db
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/1715
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_fulldisc
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-April/045472.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/431874/100/0/threaded
Third Party Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_vupen
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1508
Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/19763
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_xf
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25998

Scores

EPSS 0.0407
EPSS Percentile 89.4%

Details

Status published
Products (2)
apple/safari 1.3.1
apple/safari 2.0.3
Published Apr 25, 2006
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026