Detections
Analytics
CVE-1999-1393
critical
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.
References
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/532
http://freaky.staticusers.net/macsec/data/powerbooksecurity-data.html