What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2012-0584

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2012-03-12 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) feature in Apple Safari before 5.1.4 on Windows does not properly restrict the characters in URLs, which allows remote attackers to spoof a domain name via unspecified homoglyphs.

Affected products

• Apple Safari: through 5.1.2; 1.0, 1.0-beta, 1.0-beta2, 1.0.0, 1.0.0b1, 1.0.0b2 (+76)

References

• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Mar/msg00003.html
• http://osvdb.org/80088
• http://secunia.com/advisories/48377
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026785
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Mar/msg00003.html
• http://osvdb.org/80088
• http://secunia.com/advisories/48377
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026785

Get alerted when CVE-2012-0584 or the next vulnerability affects your stack