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CVE-2008-4593
Apple iPhone 2.1 with firmware 5F136, when Require Passcode is enabled and Show SMS Preview is disabled, allows physically proximate…
Low1.2EPSS 0.32%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
Apple iPhone 2.1 with firmware 5F136, when Require Passcode is enabled and Show SMS Preview is disabled, allows physically proximate attackers to obtain sensitive information by performing an Emergency Call tap and then reading SMS messages on the device screen, aka Apple bug number 6267416.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 16 years later
· 16 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Low1.2 | AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.32% · top 74% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 1.2.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (3)
- http://www.karlkraft.com/index.php/2008/10/03/yet-another-iphone-emergency-call-security-bug/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- apple-iphone-sms-info-disclosure(46062) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 1021021 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2008-4573 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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