CVE-2012-3734

low

Published 2012-09-20 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

1.9

Description

Office Viewer in Apple iOS before 6 writes cleartext document data to a temporary file, which might allow local users to bypass a document's intended (1) Data Protection level or (2) encryption state by reading the temporary content.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact

macOS Affected 40 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
5.1	Affected	—
5.0.1	Affected	—
5.0	Affected	—
4.3.5	Affected	—
4.3.3	Affected	—
4.3.2	Affected	—
4.3.1	Affected	—
4.3.0	Affected	—
4.2.8	Affected	—
4.2.5	Affected	—
4.2.1	Affected	—
4.1	Affected	—
4.0.2	Affected	—
4.0.1	Affected	—
4.0	Affected	—
3.2.2	Affected	—
3.2.1	Affected	—
3.2	Affected	—
3.1.3	Affected	—
3.1.2	Affected	—
3.1	Affected	—
3.0.1	Affected	—
3.0	Affected	—
2.2.1	Affected	—
2.2	Affected	—
2.1.1	Affected	—
2.1	Affected	—
2.0.2	Affected	—
2.0.1	Affected	—
2.0	Affected	—
1.1.5	Affected	—
1.1.4	Affected	—
1.1.3	Affected	—
1.1.2	Affected	—
1.1.1	Affected	—
1.1.0	Affected	—
1.0.2	Affected	—
1.0.1	Affected	—
1.0.0	Affected	—
—	Affected	—

References

CWEs

CWE-310

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.