CVE-2013-5191: Apple Mac OS X

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

• Apple Mac OS X: up to and including 10.8.5; version 10.8.0 only; version 10.8.1 only; version 10.8.2 only; version 10.8.3 only; version 10.8.4 only; …

Published 2013-10-24. Last modified 2026-06-16.