National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-0960

Overview

The Mail component in Apple iPhone OS 1.0 through 2.2.1 and iPhone OS for iPod touch 1.1 through 2.2.1 does not provide an option to disable remote image loading in HTML email, which allows remote attackers to determine the device address and when an e-mail is read via an HTML email containing an image URL.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3639

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3639

External Source: APPLE

Name: APPLE-SA-2009-06-17-1

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Jun/msg00005.html

External Source: XF

Name: iphone-ipod-mail-weak-security(51209)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/51209

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2009-1621

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1621

External Source: BID

Name: 35434

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35434

External Source: BID

Name: 35414

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35414