CVE-2012-3746: Apple iPhone OS

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

UIWebView in UIKit in Apple iOS before 6 does not properly use the Data Protection feature, which allows context-dependent attackers to obtain cleartext file content by leveraging direct access to a device's filesystem.

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.