CVE-2014-8839
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.0
Description
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.
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://heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Datenschutzpanne-in-Mac-OS-X-Yosemite-2514198.html
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Jan/msg00003.html
- http://securitytracker.com/id/1031521
- http://support.apple.com/HT204244
- http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/01/10/spotlight_caught_spreading_your_delicates/
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/100527
- http://heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Datenschutzpanne-in-Mac-OS-X-Yosemite-2514198.html
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Jan/msg00003.html
- http://securitytracker.com/id/1031521
- http://support.apple.com/HT204244
- http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/01/10/spotlight_caught_spreading_your_delicates/
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/100527
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.