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CVE-1999-1077

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.6 Published: 1999-11-01 Modified: 2026-06-16

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 Platforms

Apple Macos

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References