CVE-2014-4439
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
4.3
Description
Mail in Apple OS X before 10.10 does not properly recognize the removal of a recipient address from a message, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain sensitive information in opportunistic circumstances by reading a message intended exclusively for other recipients.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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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 withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| macos | affected | |
References
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2014-10/0101.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70619
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031063
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/97629
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT6535
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2014-10/0101.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70619
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031063
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/97629
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT6535
CWEs
CWE-200
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.