PT-2012-4970 · Apple · Ios

Angelo Prado · Published 2012-09-20 · Updated 2017-08-29 · CVE-2012-3730

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Apple iOS versions prior to 6

Description The issue arises from the improper handling of reuse of Content-ID header values in Mail, allowing remote attackers to spoof attachments via a header value that was also used in a previous e-mail message. This can be demonstrated by a message from a different sender.

Recommendations For versions prior to 6, update to a version 6 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-3730

Affected Products

Ios

References · 5

• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5503 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-3730 · Security Note
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Sep/msg00003.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://osvdb.org/85626 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78717 · Note