CVE-2008-3171 (GCVE-0-2008-3171)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-07-14 23:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 09:28
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Summary
Apple Safari sends Referer headers containing https URLs to different https web sites, which allows remote attackers to obtain potentially sensitive information by reading Referer log data.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2008-07-12 00:00
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