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CVE-2008-4593

10
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-4593 describes a sensitive information disclosure vulnerability affecting Apple iPhone 2.1 with firmware 5F136. When a passcode is required and SMS previews are disabled, a physically proximate attacker can bypass these security measures by initiating an Emergency Call and then reading SMS messages displayed on the device screen. This vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 1.2, indicating a local attack vector with high access complexity and a partial impact on confidentiality. There is no evidence of active exploitation, no known exploit code available in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, and it has received no community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:h:apple:iphone:2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

1.2LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.32%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
24.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0032 is in the 34th percentile among its peer group of 747 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 0.2 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

securitytracker.com / id
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/46062
karlkraft.com / index.php/2008/10/03/yet-another-iphone-emergency-call-security-bug