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Apple iOS Vulnerability: CVE-2012-0641

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Apple iOS Vulnerability: CVE-2012-0641

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
03/08/2012
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/08/2014
Modified
05/09/2019

Description

CFNetwork in Apple iOS before 5.1 does not properly construct request headers during parsing of URLs, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a malformed URL, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-3447.

Solution(s)

  • apple-ios-upgrade-latest

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