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High Sierra Found to Have Yet Another Password Bug →

January 10, 2018 ⌘ Permalink Stephen Hackett

Joe Rossignol, MacRumors:

A bug report submitted on Open Radar this week reveals a major security vulnerability in the current version of macOS High Sierra that allows the App Store menu in System Preferences to be unlocked with any password.

Something seems pretty broken with High Sierra’s authentication system as well as Apple’s QA work on the OS.

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