CVE-2001-1412

Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2003-11-17 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

nidump on MacOS X before 10.3 allows local users to read the encrypted passwords from the password file by specifying passwd as a command line argument.

Affected products

macOS: 10.4.9

References

http://lists.apple.com/mhonarc/security-announce/msg00038.html
http://lists.insecure.org/lists/bugtraq/2002/Sep/0128.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=99953038722104&w=2
http://securitytracker.com/id?1001946
http://www.securemac.com/macosxnidump.php
http://www.securiteam.com/securityreviews/5QP032A4UU.html
http://lists.apple.com/mhonarc/security-announce/msg00038.html
http://lists.insecure.org/lists/bugtraq/2002/Sep/0128.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=99953038722104&w=2
http://securitytracker.com/id?1001946
http://www.securemac.com/macosxnidump.php
http://www.securiteam.com/securityreviews/5QP032A4UU.html

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