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CVE-2012-3693
Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in WebKit in Apple Safari before 6.0 allows remote attackers to spoof domain names in URLs, and…
Medium5.0EPSS 1.2%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- apple
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By apple
- 36 days later
· 36 days later
Published
- 12 years later
· 12 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.2% · top 31% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (4)
- APPLE-SA-2012-09-19-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5503 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- APPLE-SA-2012-07-25-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5400 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
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- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
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- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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