CVE-2009-3273 (GCVE-0-2009-3273)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-09-21 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 06:22
VLAI
Summary
iPhone Mail in Apple iPhone OS, and iPhone OS for iPod touch, does not validate X.509 certificates, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof arbitrary SSL e-mail servers via a crafted certificate.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
mitre CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 29/100 over 2230 records in the last 180 days details
References
Date Public
2009-09-11 00:00
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