CVEvulnerability

CVE-1999-1077

4.6 MEDIUM Published 1999-11-01 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
1999-11-01
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 attackers to bypass the password protection of idled sessions via the programmer's switch or CMD-PWR keyboard sequence, which brings up a debugger that the attacker can use to disable the lock.

Affected configurations

• apple macos 9

Related

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-288 Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel weakness

References