CVE-2014-8839 (GCVE-0-2014-8839)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-01-30 11:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 13:26
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
apple CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 37/100 over 619 records in the last 180 days details
References
Date Public
2015-01-12 00:00
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