CVE-2013-5191

Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-10-24 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The syslog implementation in Apple Mac OS X before 10.9 allows local users to obtain sensitive information by leveraging access to the Guest account and reading console-log messages from previous Guest sessions.

Affected products

macOS: through 10.8.5; 10.8.0, 10.8.1, 10.8.2, 10.8.3, 10.8.4, 10.8.5

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Oct/msg00004.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Oct/msg00004.html

Get alerted when CVE-2013-5191 or the next vulnerability affects your stack