CVEvulnerability

CVE-1999-1393

4.6 MEDIUM Published 1999-05-21 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
1999-05-21
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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.

Affected configurations

• apple macos 8.5 • apple macos 8.6

References