CVE-2016-1843: Apple Mac OS X

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Messages component in Apple OS X before 10.11.5 mishandles filename encoding, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: up to and including 10.11.4

Published 2016-05-20. Last modified 2026-06-17.