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CVE-2016-4852
YoruFukurou (NightOwl) before 2.85 relies on support for emoji skin-tone modifiers even though this support is missing from the CoreText…
Medium6.5EPSS 1.7%
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- jpcert
Description
YoruFukurou (NightOwl) before 2.85 relies on support for emoji skin-tone modifiers even though this support is missing from the CoreText CTFramesetter API on OS X 10.9, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted emoji character sequence.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.7% · top 22% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (4)
- JVN#94816361 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_JVNx_transferred
- http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN94816361/995844/index.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- JVNDB-2016-000151 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_JVNDBx_transferred
- 92609 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- 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)
Record last updated .