CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-1999-1077

Published: Nov 01, 1999 | Modified: Sep 22, 2021
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
4.6 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Idle locking function in MacOS 9 allows local attackers to bypass the password protection of idled sessions via the programmers switch or CMD-PWR keyboard sequence, which brings up a debugger that the attacker can use to disable the lock.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Macos Apple 9 (including) 9 (including)

References