VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-3719

medium
Published 2012-09-20 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
—
CVSS v2
6.8
VIR risk
6.8

Description

Mail in Apple Mac OS X before 10.7.5 does not properly handle embedded web plugins, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary plugin code via an e-mail message that triggers the loading of a third-party plugin.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: product-security@apple.com — http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5501

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: product-security@apple.com — http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Sep/msg00004.html

OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
macos macosaffected
macos macos10.0affected
macos macos10.0.0affected
macos macos10.0.1affected
macos macos10.0.2affected
macos macos10.0.3affected
macos macos10.0.4affected
macos macos10.1affected
macos macos10.1.0affected
macos macos10.1.1affected
macos macos10.1.2affected
macos macos10.1.3affected
macos macos10.1.4affected
macos macos10.1.5affected
macos macos10.2affected
macos macos10.2.0affected
macos macos10.2.1affected
macos macos10.2.2affected
macos macos10.2.3affected
macos macos10.2.4affected
macos macos10.2.5affected
macos macos10.2.6affected
macos macos10.2.7affected
macos macos10.2.8affected
macos macos10.3affected
macos macos10.3.0affected
macos macos10.3.1affected
macos macos10.3.2affected
macos macos10.3.3affected
macos macos10.3.4affected
macos macos10.3.5affected
macos macos10.3.6affected
macos macos10.3.7affected
macos macos10.3.8affected
macos macos10.3.9affected
macos macos10.4affected
macos macos10.4.0affected
macos macos10.4.1affected
macos macos10.4.2affected
macos macos10.4.3affected
macos macos10.4.4affected
macos macos10.4.5affected
macos macos10.4.6affected
macos macos10.4.7affected
macos macos10.4.8affected
macos macos10.4.9affected
macos macos10.4.10affected
macos macos10.4.11affected
macos macos10.5affected
macos macos10.5.0affected
macos macos10.5.1affected
macos macos10.5.2affected
macos macos10.5.3affected
macos macos10.5.4affected
macos macos10.5.5affected
macos macos10.5.6affected
macos macos10.5.7affected
macos macos10.5.8affected
macos macos10.6.0affected
macos macos10.6.1affected
macos macos10.6.2affected
macos macos10.6.3affected
macos macos10.6.4affected
macos macos10.6.5affected
macos macos10.6.6affected
macos macos10.6.7affected
macos macos10.6.8affected
macos macos10.7.0affected
macos macos10.7.1affected
macos macos10.7.2affected
macos macos10.7.3affected

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.