Control Panel Password Security option for Apple Powerbooks allows attackers with physical access to the machine to bypass the security by booting it with an emergency startup disk and using a disk editor to modify the on/off toggle or password in the aaaaaaaAPWD file, which is normally inaccessible.
Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
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Macos | Apple | 8.5 (including) | 8.5 (including) |
Macos | Apple | 8.6 (including) | 8.6 (including) |