CVE-2011-0197

low
Published 2011-06-24 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
2.1

Description

App Store in Apple Mac OS X before 10.6.8 creates a log entry containing a user's AppleID password, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information by reading a log file, as demonstrated by a log file that has non-default permissions.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact

macos macOS Affected 9 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
10.6.7 Affected โ€”
10.6.6 Affected โ€”
10.6.5 Affected โ€”
10.6.4 Affected โ€”
10.6.3 Affected โ€”
10.6.2 Affected โ€”
10.6.1 Affected โ€”
10.6.0 Affected โ€”
10.5.8 Affected โ€”

References

CWEs

CWE-200

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

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