Information disclosure in Apple Mac OS X

CVE-2014-8839

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.

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

EPSS: 0.021 (79.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Apple Mac_os_x
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-200 — Information Disclosure

References

product-security@apple.com (x_refsource_MISC)
product-security@apple.com (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
product-security@apple.com (vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
product-security@apple.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)
product-security@apple.com (x_refsource_MISC)
product-security@apple.com (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_APPLE, Vendor Advisory)