CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-5883
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2015-10-09
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- 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-20
Description
The bidirectional text-display and text-selection implementations in Terminal in Apple OS X before 10.11 interpret directional override formatting characters differently, which allows remote attackers to spoof the content of a text document via a crafted character sequence.
Affected configurations
• apple mac os x (<= 10.10.5)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00008.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76908 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033703 www.securitytracker.com
- https://support.apple.com/HT205267 Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00008.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76908 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033703 www.securitytracker.com
- https://support.apple.com/HT205267 Vendor Advisory