CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-1999-1393

Published: May 21, 1999 | Modified: Sep 22, 2021
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
4.6 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

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.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Macos Apple 8.5 (including) 8.5 (including)
Macos Apple 8.6 (including) 8.6 (including)

References