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medium5.0

CVE-2011-3242

The Private Browsing feature in Apple Safari before 5.1.1 on Mac OS X does not properly recognize the Always value of the Block Cookies setting, which makes it…

Impact

The Private Browsing feature in Apple Safari before 5.1.1 on Mac OS X does not properly recognize the Always value of the Block Cookies setting, which makes it easier for remote web servers to track users via a cookie.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
AppleSafari
All versions
through 5.1
Versions 1.0, 1.0.0, 1.0.0b1, 1.0.0b2

Weakness classification

References