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VAR-199905-0009

Vulnerability from variot - Updated: 2025-04-03 22:39

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. apple's macOS Exists in unspecified vulnerabilities.None. Powerbooks come with a 'Password Security' Control Panel. This allows the user to create a password that must be entered prior to the OS mounting the hard drive. This feature can be enabled or disabled by the user. The control panel stores the enabled/disabled state, as well as an encrypted verion of the password, in a file called 'aaaaaaaaAPWD' in the root of the drive. The problem is that this security feature can be bypassed with a boot disk and hard drive utility

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CVE-1999-1393 (GCVE-0-1999-1393)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2001-09-12 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-01 17:11

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
http://freaky.staticusers.net/macsec/data/powerbo…	x_refsource_MISC
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/532	vdb-entryx_refsource_BID

Date Public

1999-05-21 00:00

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VAR-199905-0009

CVE-1999-1393 (GCVE-0-1999-1393)

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