{"id":"CVE-2008-4491","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2008-4491","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T18:33:06.088Z","title":"Apple Mail.app 3.5 on Mac OS X, when \"Store draft messages on the server\" is enabled, stores draft copies of S/MIME email in plaintext on the email server, which allows server owners and remote man-in-the-middle attackers to read sensitive mail.","description":"Apple Mail.app 3.5 on Mac OS X, when \"Store draft messages on the server\" is enabled, stores draft copies of S/MIME email in plaintext on the email server, which allows server owners and remote man-in-the-middle attackers to read sensitive mail.","published":"2008-10-08T18:00:04.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T22:57:55.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-200"],"affected":["apple/mail"],"epss":{"score":0.01198,"percentile":0.6792,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.20%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://enablesecurity.com/2008/10/03/apple-mailapp-security-advisory/","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://resources.enablesecurity.com/advisories/apple-mailapp-smime.txt","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4363","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/497057/100/0/threaded","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31598","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021019","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45688","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://enablesecurity.com/2008/10/03/apple-mailapp-security-advisory/","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://resources.enablesecurity.com/advisories/apple-mailapp-smime.txt","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4363","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/497057/100/0/threaded","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31598","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021019","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45688","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-4491","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}