Vulnerabilities > CVE-2012-3732 - Cryptographic Issues vulnerability in Apple Iphone OS
Attack vector
UNKNOWN Attack complexity
UNKNOWN Privileges required
UNKNOWN Confidentiality impact
UNKNOWN Integrity impact
UNKNOWN Availability impact
UNKNOWN Summary
Mail in Apple iOS before 6 uses an S/MIME message's From address as the displayed sender address, which allows remote attackers to spoof signed content via an e-mail message in which the From field does not match the signer's identity.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Signature Spoofing by Key Recreation An attacker obtains an authoritative or reputable signer's private signature key by exploiting a cryptographic weakness in the signature algorithm or pseudorandom number generation and then uses this key to forge signatures from the original signer to mislead a victim into performing actions that benefit the attacker.
References
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Sep/msg00003.html
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Sep/msg00003.html
- http://osvdb.org/85625
- http://osvdb.org/85625
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5503
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5503
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78719
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78719