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CVE-2012-3738

N/A

Published: September 20, 2012 at 09:00 PM UTC

Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:43 PM UTC

1 product affected across 1 vendoriPhone OS

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Severity

N/A

Exploit prediction

EPSS 0.3%

Description

The Emergency Dialer screen in the Passcode Lock implementation in Apple iOS before 6 does not properly limit the dialing methods, which allows physically proximate attackers to bypass intended access restrictions and make FaceTime calls through Voice Dialing, or obtain sensitive contact information by attempting to make a FaceTime call and reading the contact suggestions.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

iPhone OS · Apple

95%

v ≤ 5.1.11.0.0 1.0.1 1.0.2 1.1.0 1.1.1 1.1.2 1.1.3 1.1.4 1.1.5 2.0 2.0.1 2.0.2 2.1 2.1.1 2.2 2.2.1 3.0 3.0.1 3.1 3.1.2 3.1.3 3.2 3.2.1 3.2.2 4.0 4.0.1 4.0.2 4.1 4.2.1 4.2.5 4.2.8 4.3.0 4.3.1 4.3.2 4.3.3 4.3.5 5.0 5.0.1 5.1

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (3)

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_APPLE

Source: [email protected]

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Sep/msg00003.html

VDB Entryx_refsource_OSVDB

Source: [email protected]

http://osvdb.org/85620

x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory

Source: [email protected]

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5503

CVSS

3.6LOW[email protected]

Confidentiality: PARTIAL
Integrity: PARTIAL
Availability: NONE

Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED

CWE

CWE-264

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