The Month of Apple Bugs (MOAB) is a group of security experts who have chosen January 2007 as the security month for Mac OS X applications. MOAB says that The Omni Group’s web browser, OmniWeb, has a security risk.

As of January 7, 2006, the latest version of OmniWeb is 5.5.1. OmniWeb has a few unique functions that other web browsers don’t have. Especially, its ‘Page Info’ is exceptional in that it allows the user to access and download files that other web browsers may not be able to reach.

MOAB, as tested on version 5.5.1, says that OmniWeb has “a format string vulnerability in the handling of Javascript alert() function.” This vulnerability could allow an exploiter to execute a malicious attack remotely.

Click on the button to read MOAB’s report.