CVE-2014-8839: Apple Mac OS X

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Spotlight in Apple OS X before 10.10.2 does not enforce the Mail "Load remote content in messages" configuration, which allows remote attackers to discover recipient IP addresses by including an inline image in an HTML e-mail message and logging HTTP requests for this image's URL.

Affected products

  • Apple Mac OS X: up to and including 10.10.1

Published 2015-01-30. Last modified 2026-06-17.