Apple Mail.app 3.5 on Mac OS X, when "Store draft messages on the server" is enabled, stores draft copies of S/MIME email in plaintext on…

Description

Apple Mail.app 3.5 on Mac OS X, when "Store draft messages on the server" is enabled, stores draft copies of S/MIME email in plaintext on the email server, which allows server owners and remote man-in-the-middle attackers to read sensitive mail.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

1.2% · top 32% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-200 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-200 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (7)

• apple-mail-smime-information-disclosure(45688) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• http://resources.enablesecurity.com/advisories/apple-mailapp-smime.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• 31598 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• 20081006 [ENABLESECURITY] Apple's Mail.app stores your S/MIME encrypted emails in clear text (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• http://enablesecurity.com/2008/10/03/apple-mailapp-security-advisory/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• 4363 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
• 1021019 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2008-4491](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2008-4491.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2008-4491)

Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 10:17 UTC.