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CVE-2021-30998 — A S/MIME issue existed in the handling of encrypted email

Medium CVSS 5.3

A S/MIME issue existed in the handling of encrypted email. This issue was addressed with improved selection of the encryption certificate. This issue is fixed in iOS 15.2 and iPadOS 15.2. A sender's email address may be leaked when sending an S/MIME encrypted email using a certificate with more than one email address.

Severity
Medium
CVSS
5.3 (3.1)
Published
2021-08-24
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
apple/platform

Affected products

  • apple / ipados
  • apple / iphone_os

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General vulnerability remediation

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Check exposure

  • Confirm the affected component, deployment paths, reachable interfaces, and enabled features from inventories and configuration, without probing production destructively.
  • Compare the advisory's affected conditions with the repository lockfiles, build manifests, artifacts, and runtime inventory.
  • Identify data sensitivity, trust boundaries, and privilege level for every confirmed affected deployment.

Remediate safely

  • Apply a vendor-supported fix or remove the affected component or feature; record the selected change and its source in the repository.
  • Update direct and transitive dependency locks, generated artifacts, deployment manifests, and asset inventories together.
  • Add a regression test for the documented unsafe condition using inert inputs and preserve rollback instructions.

Authoritative sources

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