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 (2)
Core 2
Core References
Exploit, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
http://freaky.staticusers.net/macsec/data/powerbooksecurity-data.html
Exploit, Vendor Advisory vdb-entry
x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/532
Scores
EPSS
0.0048
EPSS Percentile
38.7%
Details
Status
published
Products (2)
apple/macos
8.5
apple/macos
8.6
Published
May 21, 1999
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026