CVE

Id
1373  
CVE No.
CVE-1999-1393  
Status
Candidate  
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.  
Phase
Proposed (20010912)  
Votes
NOOP(3) Cole, Foat, Wall | REVIEWING(1) Frech  
Comments
Frech> (Task 2285)