PT-2011-4334 · Apple · Safari

John Adamczyk · Published 2011-10-14 · Updated 2017-08-29 · CVE-2011-3242

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Apple Safari versions prior to 5.1.1

Description The issue concerns the Private Browsing feature, which fails to properly recognize the Always value of the Block Cookies setting. This makes it easier for remote web servers to track users via a cookie.

Recommendations For versions prior to 5.1.1, update to version 5.1.1 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Information Disclosure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

Related Identifiers

CVE-2011-3242

Affected Products

Safari

References · 5

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-3242 · Security Note
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2011//Oct/msg00004.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5000 · Vendor Advisory
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/70569 · Note
• http://osvdb.org/76391 · Note