VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-3741

low
Published 2012-09-20 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
—
CVSS v2
1.9
VIR risk
1.9

Description

The Restrictions (aka Parental Controls) implementation in Apple iOS before 6 does not properly handle purchase attempts after a Disable Restrictions action, which allows local users to bypass an intended Apple ID authentication step via an app that performs purchase transactions.

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/HT5503

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: product-security@apple.com — http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Sep/msg00003.html

OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
macos macosaffected
macos macos1.0.0affected
macos macos1.0.1affected
macos macos1.0.2affected
macos macos1.1.0affected
macos macos1.1.1affected
macos macos1.1.2affected
macos macos1.1.3affected
macos macos1.1.4affected
macos macos1.1.5affected
macos macos2.0affected
macos macos2.0.0affected
macos macos2.0.1affected
macos macos2.0.2affected
macos macos2.1affected
macos macos2.1.1affected
macos macos2.2affected
macos macos2.2.1affected
macos macos3.0affected
macos macos3.0.1affected
macos macos3.1affected
macos macos3.1.2affected
macos macos3.1.3affected
macos macos3.2affected
macos macos3.2.1affected
macos macos3.2.2affected
macos macos4.0affected
macos macos4.0.1affected
macos macos4.0.2affected
macos macos4.1affected
macos macos4.2.1affected
macos macos4.2.5affected
macos macos4.2.8affected
macos macos4.3.0affected
macos macos4.3.1affected
macos macos4.3.2affected
macos macos4.3.3affected
macos macos4.3.5affected
macos macos5.0affected
macos macos5.0.1affected

References

CWEs

CWE-287

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