CVE-2012-3719: Apple Mac OS X

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Mail in Apple Mac OS X before 10.7.5 does not properly handle embedded web plugins, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary plugin code via an e-mail message that triggers the loading of a third-party plugin.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: up to and including 10.7.4; version 10.0 only; version 10.0.0 only; version 10.0.1 only; version 10.0.2 only; version 10.0.3 only; …
• Apple Mac OS X Server: up to and including 10.7.4; version 10.0 only; version 10.0.0 only; version 10.0.1 only; version 10.0.2 only; version 10.0.3 only; …

Published 2012-09-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.