Vulnerability in Sun Solaris

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.

EPSS: 0.021 (79.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

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