CVE-2011-3242

medium

Description

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.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/70569

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5000

http://osvdb.org/76391

http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2011//Oct/msg00004.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2011-10-14

Updated: 2025-04-11

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N