Spotlight in Apple OS X before 10.10.2 does not enforce the Mail "Load remote content in messages" configuration, which allows remote attackers to discover recipient IP addresses by including an inline image in an HTML e-mail message and logging HTTP requests for this image's URL.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2014-8669 Spotlight in Apple OS X before 10.10.2 does not enforce the Mail "Load remote content in messages" configuration, which allows remote attackers to discover recipient IP addresses by including an inline image in an HTML e-mail message and logging HTTP requests for this image's URL.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: apple

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T13:26:02.908Z

Reserved: 2014-11-14T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2014-8839

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2015-01-30T11:59:48.423

Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Link: CVE-2014-8839

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