CVE-2017-7141

FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-7141 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting Apple macOS versions prior to 10.13, specifically within the Mail application. It allows a remote attacker to bypass the "Load remote content in messages" setting via a crafted HTML email, thereby revealing the recipient's IP address. The attack requires no user interaction and has a low impact on confidentiality. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		<= 10.12.6CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x::::::::

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.3MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

LOW

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Exploitability Score

3.9

Impact Score

1.4

CvssVersion

3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

1.50%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

71.6%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-27

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0150 is in the 54th percentile among its peer group of 23,703 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 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

support.apple.com / HT208144

Vendor Advisory

securityfocus.com / bid/100993

Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry

securitytracker.com / id/1039427

Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry