CVEvulnerability

CVE-1999-1076

4.6 MEDIUM Published 1999-10-26 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
1999-10-26
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

Idle locking function in MacOS 9 allows local users to bypass the password protection of idled sessions by selecting the "Log Out" option and selecting a "Cancel" option in the dialog box for an application that attempts to verify that the user wants to log out, which returns the attacker into the locked session.

Affected configurations

• apple macos 9

References