National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-3831

Overview

Photos in Apple iOS before 4.2 enables support for HTTP Basic Authentication over an unencrypted connection, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to read MobileMe account passwords by spoofing a MobileMe Gallery server during a "Send to MobileMe" action.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4456

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4456

External Source: XF

Name: appleios-photos-information-disclsoure(63420)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/63420

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2010-3046

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3046

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1024771

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024771

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 42314

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/42314

External Source: APPLE

Name: APPLE-SA-2010-11-22-1

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00003.html