CVE-1999-1077 medium

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.

Indicators of Compromise (0)

No indicators of compromise on this threat.

References (3)

• cve@mitre.org NVD Recent CVEs
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• NVD detail: CVE-1999-1077 NVD Recent CVEs

  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.

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