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I know this is not Windows related, but it bears posting for our members and guests who own a Mac with MacOS High Sierra.

Huge macOS Bug Allows Root Login Without a Password. Heres the Fix

OilerNut said:

There is a way to enable, set the password for the default admin account in Windows as well, that has been around since Vista.

What you're referring to is a built-in feature of Windows, not a bug, and not relevant to the thread.

The exploit can be run in many ways, but the simplest way to see how it works is in System Preferences. The attacker needs only to head to Users & Groups, click the lock at bottom-left, then try to log in as “root” with no password.The first time you do this, amazingly, a root account with no password is created. The second time you’ll actually log in as root. In our tests this works regardless of whether the current user is an administrator or not. This gives the attacker access to all administrator preferences in System Preferences…but that’s only the beginning, because you’ve created a new, system-wide root user with no password.

COMPUTIAC said:

Yet another flaw in Apple bug fix - Malwarebytes Labs | Malwarebytes Labs

Wow!

COMPUTIAC said:

Last week after your first post looked into it in El Capitan which I have on my Mac lappy.
I got right in with no password for root on the very first try.
I have since closed the loophole.

Same fix?