CVE-1999-1077

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 1999-11-01 · updated 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 products

Apple macOS: 9

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=94149318124548&w=2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/756
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=94149318124548&w=2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/756

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