CVE-2009-1706

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2009-06-10 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

The Private Browsing feature in Apple Safari before 4.0 on Windows does not remove cookies from the alternate cookie store in unspecified circumstances upon (1) disabling of the feature or (2) exit of the application, which makes it easier for remote web servers to track users via a cookie.

Affected products

Apple Safari: through 3.2.3; 3.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.0.3, 3.0.4, 3.1 (+5)

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/jun/msg00002.html
http://osvdb.org/54997
http://secunia.com/advisories/35379
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3613
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35260
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35346
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1522
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/jun/msg00002.html
http://osvdb.org/54997
http://secunia.com/advisories/35379
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3613
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35260

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