CVE-2012-3693

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-07-25 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in WebKit in Apple Safari before 6.0 allows remote attackers to spoof domain names in URLs, and possibly conduct phishing attacks, by leveraging the availability of IDN support and Unicode fonts to construct unspecified homoglyphs.

Affected products

Apple Safari: through 5.1.7; 1.0, 1.0-beta, 1.0-beta2, 1.0.0, 1.0.0b1, 1.0.0b2 (+82)

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Jul/msg00000.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Sep/msg00003.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5400
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5503
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Jul/msg00000.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Sep/msg00003.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5400
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5503

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