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CVE-1999-1174

• 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: none known
• Published: 2001-12-21 · updated 2026-09-25

Description

ZIP drive for Iomega ZIP-100 disks allows attackers with physical access to the drive to bypass password protection by inserting a known disk with a known password, waiting for the ZIP drive to power down, manually replacing the known disk with the target disk, and using the known password to access the target disk.

Affected products

• Iomega Zip 100 Mb Drive: all versions

References

• http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram-9812.html#doghouse
• http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram-9812.html#doghouse

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