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CVE-2011-2486

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2012-11-19 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

nspluginwrapper before 1.4.4 does not properly provide access to NPNVprivateModeBool variable settings, which could prevent Firefox plugins from determining if they should run in Private Browsing mode and allow remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions, as demonstrated using Flash.

Affected products

• Nspluginwrapper: 1.4.2

References

• http://lwn.net/Alerts/524725/
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1459.html
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027757
• https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=702034
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=715384
• https://github.com/davidben/nspluginwrapper/commit/7e4ab8e1189846041f955e6c83f72bc1624e7a98
• http://lwn.net/Alerts/524725/
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1459.html
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027757
• https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=702034
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=715384
• https://github.com/davidben/nspluginwrapper/commit/7e4ab8e1189846041f955e6c83f72bc1624e7a98

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