CVE-2012-3730

medium

Published 2012-09-20 · Modified 2026-04-29

💬 Discuss on Community ✚ Propose mitigation

CVSS v3

—

CVSS v4 NEW

—

not yet in upstream

VIR risk

4.3

Description

Mail in Apple iOS before 6 does not properly handle reuse of Content-ID header values, which allows remote attackers to spoof attachments via a header value that was also used in a previous e-mail message, as demonstrated by a message from a different sender.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

OS impact

OS	Version	Status
macos		affected
macos	1.0.0	affected
macos	1.0.1	affected
macos	1.0.2	affected
macos	1.1.0	affected
macos	1.1.1	affected
macos	1.1.2	affected
macos	1.1.3	affected
macos	1.1.4	affected
macos	1.1.5	affected
macos	2.0	affected
macos	2.0.1	affected
macos	2.0.2	affected
macos	2.1	affected
macos	2.1.1	affected
macos	2.2	affected
macos	2.2.1	affected
macos	3.0	affected
macos	3.0.1	affected
macos	3.1	affected
macos	3.1.2	affected
macos	3.1.3	affected
macos	3.2	affected
macos	3.2.1	affected
macos	3.2.2	affected
macos	4.0	affected
macos	4.0.1	affected
macos	4.0.2	affected
macos	4.1	affected
macos	4.2.1	affected
macos	4.2.5	affected
macos	4.2.8	affected
macos	4.3.0	affected
macos	4.3.1	affected
macos	4.3.2	affected
macos	4.3.3	affected
macos	4.3.5	affected
macos	5.0	affected
macos	5.0.1	affected
macos	5.1	affected

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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