CVE-2013-5183

low
Published 2013-10-24 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
VIR risk
2.6

Description

Mail in Apple Mac OS X before 10.9, when Kerberos authentication is enabled and TLS is disabled, sends invalid cleartext data, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by sniffing the network.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
macos macosaffected
macos macos10.8.0affected
macos macos10.8.1affected
macos macos10.8.2affected
macos macos10.8.3affected
macos macos10.8.4affected
macos macos10.8.5affected

References

CWEs

CWE-200

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Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.