PT-2012-4982 · Apple · Safari+1

Boku Kihara · Published 2012-09-20 · Updated 2017-08-29 · CVE-2012-3742

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/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 concerns the Safari browser in Apple iOS, where it fails to properly restrict the use of a specific Unicode character that resembles the https lock indicator. This allows remote attackers to spoof https connections by including this character in the TITLE element of a web page.

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

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-3742

Affected Products

Safari

Ios

References · 8

• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2012-3742 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-3742 · Security Note
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5503 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Sep/msg00003.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2012-3742 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-3742 · Security Note
• http://osvdb.org/85632 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78708 · Note