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CVE-2012-3728

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-3728 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Apple iOS before version 6. It allows a local attacker to gain elevated privileges by crafting a program that manipulates packet-filter data structures, leading to invalid pointer dereferences within the kernel. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.9, indicating high severity with local access, medium attack complexity, and complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage for this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 5.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:iphone_os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:iphone_os:1.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:iphone_os:1.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:iphone_os:1.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:iphone_os:1.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.9MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.4
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.34%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
26.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0034 is in the 28th percentile among its peer group of 1,595 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 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

Vendor Patches (1)

applevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2012/Sep/msg00003.html
Vendor Advisory
osvdb.org / 85629
support.apple.com / kb/HT5503
Vendor Advisory