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CVE-1999-1393

Published: Sep 12, 2001

Modified: Aug 1, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

http://freaky.staticusers.net/macsec/data/powerbooksecurity-data.html

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