CVE-1999-1393
First published: Fri May 21 1999(Updated: )
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.
Credit: cve@mitre.org cve@mitre.org
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Apple macOS | =8.5 | |
| Apple macOS | =8.6 | |
| =8.5 | ||
| =8.6 |
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