CVE-1999-1393
Published May 21, 1999
Last updated 3 years ago
Overview
- 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.
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
- NVD status
- Analyzed
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Risk scores
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 4.6
- Impact score
- 6.4
- Exploitability score
- 3.9
- Vector string
- AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- NVD-CWE-Other
Configurations
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"criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:apple:macos:8.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
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"operator": "OR"
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