CVE-1999-1393

Severity

46%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

106%

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.

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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.6. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

Type

Apple Mac OS

First reported 26 years ago

1999-05-21 04:00:00

Last updated 16 years ago

2008-09-05 20:19:00

Affected Software

Apple Mac OS 8.5

8.5

Apple Mac OS 8.6

8.6

References

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

Exploit, Vendor Advisory

532

Exploit, Vendor Advisory

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