National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-1706

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2009-1522

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1522

External Source: BID

Name: 35260

Type: Patch Information; Exploit

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35260

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3613

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3613

External Source: APPLE

Name: APPLE-SA-2009-06-08-1

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/jun/msg00002.html

External Source: BID

Name: 35346

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35346

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 35379

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/35379

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 54997

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/54997