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CVE-2010-3887

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-3887 describes a bypass vulnerability in the Parental Controls "Limit Mail" feature within Apple Mail on Mac OS X. This flaw allows remote attackers to circumvent whitelisting restrictions, enabling unauthorized email communication by knowing a child's and parent's email addresses. With a CVSS score of 4.3, this vulnerability has a network attack vector and medium complexity, potentially leading to unauthorized information disclosure (I:P) but no confidentiality or availability impact. 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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.20%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
65.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0120 is in the 31st percentile among its peer group of 19,955 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 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

blog.kamens.us / 2010/08/03/mac-os-x-mail-parental-controls-vulnerability