CVE-2015-5883: Apple Mac OS X

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The bidirectional text-display and text-selection implementations in Terminal in Apple OS X before 10.11 interpret directional override formatting characters differently, which allows remote attackers to spoof the content of a text document via a crafted character sequence.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: up to and including 10.10.5

Published 2015-10-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.