CVE-2005-1331

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2005-05-04 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The AppleScript Editor in Mac OS X 10.3.9 does not properly display script code for an applescript: URI, which can result in code that is different than the actual code that would be run, which could allow remote attackers to trick users into executing malicious code via certain URI characters such as NULL, control characters, and homographs.

Affected products

Applescript: 2.0.0
macOS: 10.3, 10.3.1, 10.3.2, 10.3.3, 10.3.4, 10.3.5 (+4)
Apple Mac Os X Server: 10.3, 10.3.1, 10.3.2, 10.3.3, 10.3.4, 10.3.5 (+4)

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005/May/msg00001.html
http://remahl.se/david/vuln/010/
http://secunia.com/advisories/15227
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13480
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/0455
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005/May/msg00001.html
http://remahl.se/david/vuln/010/
http://secunia.com/advisories/15227
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13480
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/0455

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