National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-3887

Overview

The Limit Mail feature in the Parental Controls functionality in Mail on Apple Mac OS X does not properly enforce the correspondence whitelist, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions and conduct e-mail communication by leveraging knowledge of a child's e-mail address and a parent's e-mail address, related to parental notification of unapproved e-mail addresses.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: MISC

Name: http://blog.kamens.us/2010/08/03/mac-os-x-mail-parental-controls-vulnerability/

Hyperlink:http://blog.kamens.us/2010/08/03/mac-os-x-mail-parental-controls-vulnerability/