CVE-2013-5178

medium

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.

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Oct/msg00004.html

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6150

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2013-10-24

Updated: 2014-03-06

Type: CWE-264

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Impact Score: 2.9

Exploitability Score: 10

Severity: MEDIUM