What is CVE-2017-7141?

CVE-2017-7141 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Apple Mac OS X, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2017-10-23.

How severe is CVE-2017-7141?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.

Information disclosure in Apple Mac OS X

CVE-2017-7141

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. macOS before 10.13 is affected. The issue involves the "Mail" component. It allows remote attackers to bypass an intended off value of the "Load remote content in messages" setting, and consequently discover an e-mail recipient's IP address, via an HTML email message.

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

EPSS: 0.015 (71.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Apple Mac_os_x
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-200 — Information Disclosure

References

product-security@apple.com (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
product-security@apple.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)
product-security@apple.com (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-7141?: CVE-2017-7141 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Apple Mac OS X, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2017-10-23.
How severe is CVE-2017-7141?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.