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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2001-09-12T04:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-01T17:11:02.935Z

Reserved: 2001-08-31T00:00:00

Link: CVE-1999-1393

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 1999-05-21T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2021-09-22T14:22:24.190

Link: CVE-1999-1393

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