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CVE-2011-3242

• 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: none known
• Published: 2011-10-14 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-200

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.

Affected products

• Apple Safari: through 5.1; 1.0, 1.0-beta, 1.0-beta2, 1.0.0, 1.0.0b1, 1.0.0b2 (+76)

References

• http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2011//Oct/msg00004.html
• http://osvdb.org/76391
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5000
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/70569
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2011//Oct/msg00004.html
• http://osvdb.org/76391
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5000
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/70569

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