CVE-2017-7149

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. macOS before 10.13 Supplemental Update is affected. The issue involves the "StorageKit" component. It allows attackers to discover passwords for APFS encrypted volumes by reading Disk Utility hints, because the stored hint value was accidentally...

CVE-2017-7149

CVE-2017-7149 affects macOS before 10.13 Supplemental Update via the StorageKit component. The vulnerability allows reading Disk Utility hints to recover APFS volume passwords because the stored hint value could be the actual password. Impact is exposure of passwords for APFS-encrypted volumes; a...

PT-2017-17544

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions macOS versions prior to 10.13 Supplemental Update Description The issue involves the StorageKit component, allowing attackers to discover passwords for APFS encrypted volumes. This is possible by reading Disk Utility hints, as the stored hint...

CVE-2017-7149: Undefined Security Weakness

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. macOS before 10.13 Supplemental Update is affected. The issue involves the "StorageKit" component. It allows attackers to discover passwords for APFS encrypted volumes by reading Disk Utility hints, because the stored hint value was accidentally...

Emergency Apple Patch Fixes High Sierra Password Hint Leak

Apple rushed out an emergency patch Thursday that fixed an incredulous bug in its shiny new High Sierra operating system that revealed APFS volume passwords via the password hint feature. Brazilian researcher Matheus Mariano of Leet Tech found the bug and privately disclosed it to Apple. He said...

Apple macOS High Sierra Bug Exposes Passwords of Encrypted APFS Volumes As Hint

A severe programming error has been discovered in Apple's latest macOS High Sierra 10.13 that exposes passwords of encrypted Apple File System APFS volumes in plain text. Reported by Matheus Mariano, a Brazilian software developer, the vulnerability affects encrypted volumes using APFS wherein th...

Apple announces Encryption-focused New File System for macOS Sierra

Apple announced one huge change at WWDC 2016: The company is replacing the HFS+ file system on MacOS, iOS, tvOS and WatchOS with a new file system. The company has introduced its brand new file system called The Apple File System — or APFS for short — for iOS, OS X, tvOS, and WatchOS, making...