CVE-2012-3725: Apple iPhone OS

Low severity, CVSS 3.3. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The DNAv4 protocol implementation in the DHCP component in Apple iOS before 6 sends Wi-Fi packets containing a MAC address of a host on a previously used network, which might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information about previous device locations by sniffing an unencrypted Wi-Fi network for these packets.

Affected products

• Apple iPhone OS: up to and including 5.1.1; version 1.0.0 only; version 1.0.1 only; version 1.0.2 only; version 1.1.0 only; version 1.1.1 only; …

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