CVE-1999-1077

Published Nov 1, 1999

Last updated 3 years ago

Overview

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.
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Modified

Hype score: Not currently trending

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 4.6
Impact score: 6.4
Exploitability score: 3.9
Vector string: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-Other

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:apple:macos:9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "9D22617D-622E-442B-A2C7-C2571978DC42"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References