CVEvulnerability
CVE-2013-5178
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2013-10-24
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
LaunchServices in Apple Mac OS X before 10.9 does not properly restrict Unicode characters in filenames, which allows context-dependent attackers to spoof file extensions via a crafted character sequence.
Affected configurations
• apple mac os x (<= 10.8.5)
• apple mac os x 10.8.0
• apple mac os x 10.8.1
• apple mac os x 10.8.2
• apple mac os x 10.8.3
• apple mac os x 10.8.4
• apple mac os x 10.8.5
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Oct/msg00004.html Vendor Advisory
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6150 support.apple.com
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Oct/msg00004.html Vendor Advisory
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6150 support.apple.com