National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-3444
Original release date:02/02/2012
Last revised:02/06/2012
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Address Book in Apple Mac OS X before 10.7.3 automatically switches to unencrypted sessions upon failure of encrypted connections, which allows remote attackers to read CardDAV data by terminating an encrypted connection and then sniffing the network.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5130
Type: Advisory
External Source: APPLE
Name: APPLE-SA-2012-02-01-1
Type: Advisory