Developers of the Metasploit framework for hackers and penetration testers have released a module that should exploit the vulnerability on machines running Windows, Apple OS X, and Linux regardless of the browser they're using.

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Moy says that the poor results of the NSS test are particularly surprising given that the vulnerabilities the lab tested were publicly described by government sources like CERT and MITRE, and the exploits they used came from the open-source penetration testing framework Metasploit.

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