Description
The Limit Mail feature in the Parental Controls functionality in Mail on Apple Mac OS X does not properly enforce the correspondence whitelist, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions and conduct e-mail communication by leveraging knowledge of a child's e-mail address and a parent's e-mail address, related to parental notification of unapproved e-mail addresses.
Published: 2010-10-08
Score: 4.3 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2010-3865 The Limit Mail feature in the Parental Controls functionality in Mail on Apple Mac OS X does not properly enforce the correspondence whitelist, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions and conduct e-mail communication by leveraging knowledge of a child's e-mail address and a parent's e-mail address, related to parental notification of unapproved e-mail addresses.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-09-17T04:09:47.338Z

Reserved: 2010-10-08T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2010-3887

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Status : Modified

Published: 2010-10-08T22:00:36.847

Modified: 2026-04-29T01:13:23.040

Link: CVE-2010-3887

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