CVE-2001-1565: Apple Mac OS X

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Point to Point Protocol daemon (pppd) in MacOS x 10.0 and 10.1 through 10.1.5 provides the username and password on the command line, which allows local users to obtain authentication information via the ps command.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: version 10.0 only; version 10.1 only; version 10.1.1 only; version 10.1.2 only; version 10.1.3 only; version 10.1.4 only; …

Published 2001-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.