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CVE-1999-1393

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.

Published

1999-05-21T04:00:00.000

Last Modified

2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 4.6 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Access Vector: LOCAL
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: PARTIAL
Integrity Impact: PARTIAL
Availability Impact: PARTIAL

Exploitability Score

3.9

Impact Score

6.4

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Operating System	apple	macos	8.5	Yes
Operating System	apple	macos	8.6	Yes

References

http://freaky.staticusers.net/macsec/data/powerbooksecurity-data.html Exploit, Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/532 Exploit, Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://freaky.staticusers.net/macsec/data/powerbooksecurity-data.html Exploit, Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/532 Exploit, Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)