CVE-2017-13874
HighSummary
An issue was discovered in certain Apple products, including iOS before 11.2, related to the 'Mail' component. It might allow remote attackers to bypass an intended encryption protection mechanism by leveraging incorrect S/MIME certificate selection.
Risk Assessment
Organizations may be at risk of exposing sensitive information, as attackers could exploit this vulnerability to intercept encrypted communications.
Recommendation
It is recommended to update iOS systems to version 11.2 or later to mitigate the risk associated with this vulnerability.
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An issue was discovered in certain Apple products, including macOS before 10.13.2, related to the 'Mail' component. It allows remote attackers to read cleartext e-mail content that was intended to be protected by S/MIME encryption.
- CVE-2016-4689High
An issue was discovered in certain Apple products, including iOS before 10.2, related to the 'Mail' component. The issue involves the lack of user alerts for S/MIME email signatures using a revoked certificate.
- GHSA-mvxr-6m87-mv2qMedium
A vulnerability in the Mail library affects the q_value_decode and b_value_decode functions, which decode only the first RFC 2047 encoded-word in a string and use an overly greedy pattern to match the charset token. A crafted, malformed encoded-word embedded in an address display name or local part could cause incorrect decoding.
Original NVD description (English source)
An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. iOS before 11.2 is affected. The issue involves the "Mail" component. It might allow remote attackers to bypass an intended encryption protection mechanism by leveraging incorrect S/MIME certificate selection.