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Unscored Public exploit CVE-2001-1412 EUVD-2001-1392GHSA-4xg9-r6jc-wpcq

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 l…

Published Oct 25, 2003 · Updated Aug 8, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

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.

Public exploits

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Exploit-DB 1

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