CVE-2015-5883

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.

Score

CVSS 2.0 5.0 Medium

Status

Modified - product-security@apple.com

Published

2015-10-09

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-20

Affected products

• Mac Os X (Apple)

References

• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00008.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76908
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033703
• https://support.apple.com/HT205267