National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-3730
Original release date:09/20/2012
Last revised:09/21/2012
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Mail in Apple iOS before 6 does not properly handle reuse of Content-ID header values, which allows remote attackers to spoof attachments via a header value that was also used in a previous e-mail message, as demonstrated by a message from a different sender.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized modification
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5503
Type: Advisory
External Source: APPLE
Name: APPLE-SA-2012-09-19-1
Type: Advisory