Bypassing Password Protection in MacOS 9 via Idle Locking Vulnerability

CVE-1999-1077 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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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