CVE-2005-1331: Apple Applescript

Medium severity, CVSS 5.1. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

• Apple Applescript: version 2.0.0 only
• Apple Mac OS X: version 10.3 only; version 10.3.1 only; version 10.3.2 only; version 10.3.3 only; version 10.3.4 only; version 10.3.5 only; …
• Apple Mac OS X Server: version 10.3 only; version 10.3.1 only; version 10.3.2 only; version 10.3.3 only; version 10.3.4 only; version 10.3.5 only; …

Published 2005-05-04. Last modified 2026-06-16.