CVE-2014-8839
Spotlight in Apple OS X before 10.10.2 does not enforce the Mail "Load remote content in messages" configuration, which allows remote attackers to discover recipient IP addresses by including an inline image in an HTML e-mail message and logging HTTP requests for this image's URL.
- Score
- CVSS 2.0 5.0 Medium
- Status
- Modified - product-security@apple.com
- Published
- 2015-01-30
- Last modified
- 2024-08-06
- Weaknesses
- CWE-200
Affected products
References
- http://heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Datenschutzpanne-in-Mac-OS-X-Yosemite-2514198.html
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Jan/msg00003.html
- http://securitytracker.com/id/1031521
- http://support.apple.com/HT204244
- http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/01/10/spotlight_caught_spreading_your_delicates/
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/100527
