CVE-1999-1393 - 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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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

Published Sep 12, 2001

4.6

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.48%

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 products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (2)

http://freaky.staticusers.net/macsec/data/powerbooksecurity-data.html
x_refsource_MISCExploitVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/532
vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDExploitVendor Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
http://freaky.staticusers.net/macsec/data/powerbooksecurity-data.html		x_refsource_MISCExploitVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/532		vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDExploitVendor Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Sep 12, 2001

Updated Aug 1, 2024

Reserved Aug 31, 2001

Link CVE-1999-1393

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-1999-1393

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-1999-1393