CVE-2001-1412: Apple Mac OS X

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

• Apple Mac OS X: version 10.4.9 only

Published 2003-11-17. Last modified 2026-06-16.