Vulnerability in Apple Mac OS X

CVE-2013-5178

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.

EPSS: 0.010 (60.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Apple Mac_os_x — versions 10.8.0, 10.8.1, 10.8.2
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-264

References

product-security@apple.com (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_APPLE, Vendor Advisory)
product-security@apple.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM)