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CVE-2005-2512

11
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-2512 describes a privacy vulnerability in Apple Mail.app on Mac OS 10.4.2 and earlier, where printing or forwarding an HTML email could inadvertently load remote images, bypassing user privacy settings. This local vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 2.1, indicating a potential privacy leak (confidentiality impact) with no integrity or availability impact, and requires local access. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this decade-old vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apple:mail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.4.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.4.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.1LOW

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.37%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
29.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0037 is in the 40th percentile among its peer group of 2,096 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.6 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2005/Aug/msg00000.html
PatchVendor Advisory
lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2005//Aug/msg00001.html
PatchVendor Advisory