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OS X update for Mail (CVE-2019-8645)

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OS X update for Mail (CVE-2019-8645)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
08/02/2019
Created
08/02/2019
Added
08/02/2019
Modified
11/04/2020

Description

An issue existed in the handling of encrypted Mail. This issue was addressed with improved isolation of MIME in Mail. This issue is fixed in macOS Mojave 10.14.4, Security Update 2019-002 High Sierra, Security Update 2019-002 Sierra. An attacker in a privileged network position may be able to intercept the contents of S/MIME-encrypted e-mail.

Solution(s)

  • apple-osx-upgrade-10_14_4

References

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