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CVE-2012-0641
CFNetwork in Apple iOS before 5.1 does not properly construct request headers during parsing of URLs, which allows remote attackers to…
Medium5.0EPSS 2.3%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- apple
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By apple
- 56 days later
· 56 days later
Published
- 12 years later
· 12 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 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.3% · top 17% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (3)
- 1026774 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 48288 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- APPLE-SA-2012-03-07-2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_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)
- 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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