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CVE-1999-1432

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 1998-07-16 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Power management (Powermanagement) on Solaris 2.4 through 2.6 does not start the xlock process until after the sys-suspend has completed, which allows an attacker with physical access to input characters to the last active application from the keyboard for a short period after the system is restoring, which could lead to increased privileges.

Affected products

• Sun Solaris: 2.4, 2.5, 2.5.1, 2.6
• Sunos: 5.4, 5.5, 5.5.1

References

• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=90221104525997&w=2
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/160
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=90221104525997&w=2
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/160

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