Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in macOS - CVE-2013-5191
Published: October 24, 2013 / Updated: August 10, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU42439
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2013-5191
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Apple Inc.
Affected software:
macOS
macOS
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to gain access to sensitive information.
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.
How to mitigate CVE-2013-5191
Install update from vendor's website.