Physical Access Vulnerability: Bypassing Password Security on Apple Powerbooks

CVE-1999-1393 · MEDIUM Severity

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

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.

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