Vulnerability in Apple Iphone OS

CVE-2009-3273

iPhone Mail in Apple iPhone OS, and iPhone OS for iPod touch, does not validate X.509 certificates, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof arbitrary SSL e-mail servers via a crafted certificate.

Vulnerability class: POODLE (CVE-2014-3566)

Published 2009-09-21 · last modified 2026-06-16.

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.009 (59.0th percentile), scored 2026-10-01.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 59th percentile — 59.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.009 · newest: 0.009 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Apple Iphone OS — versions 1.0, 1.0.0, 1.0.1

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-310 — Cryptographic Issues

References

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53234 (vdb-entry)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/36370 (vdb-entry)
www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/506428/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)