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CVE-1999-1432

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.

Published

1998-07-16T04:00:00.000

Last Modified

2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 7.5 (HIGH)

CVSSv2 Vector

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

  • Access Vector: NETWORK
  • Access Complexity: LOW
  • Authentication: NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact: PARTIAL
  • Integrity Impact: PARTIAL
  • Availability Impact: PARTIAL
Exploitability Score

10.0

Impact Score

6.4

Weaknesses
  • Type: Primary
    NVD-CWE-Other
Affected Vendors & Products
Type Vendor Product Version/Range Vulnerable?
Operating System sun solaris 2.4 Yes
Operating System sun solaris 2.5 Yes
Operating System sun solaris 2.5.1 Yes
Operating System sun solaris 2.5.1 Yes
Operating System sun solaris 2.6 Yes
Operating System sun sunos - Yes
Operating System sun sunos 5.4 Yes
Operating System sun sunos 5.5 Yes
Operating System sun sunos 5.5.1 Yes
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