CVE-2012-3730

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-09-20 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

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.

Affected products

Apple Iphone Os: through 5.1.1; 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.1.0, 1.1.1, 1.1.2 (+33)

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Sep/msg00003.html
http://osvdb.org/85626
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5503
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78717
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Sep/msg00003.html
http://osvdb.org/85626
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5503
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78717

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