Security Advisory

CVE-1999-1077

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2001-09-12 04:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-01 17:02:53
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

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.