CVE-1999-1432 EXPLOIT
7.5
HIGH · CVSS 2.0 · EPSS 2.1% (pctl 81)
Patch early
A public exploit exists.
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.
Scoring
| CVSS | 7.5 (HIGH, v2.0) |
|---|---|
| Vector | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
| EPSS | 2.09% — more likely to be exploited than 81% of all CVEs |
| On CISA KEV | no |
| Public exploit | yes |
| Published | 1998-07-16 |
| Last modified | 2026-06-16 |
Affected (2)
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| sun | solaris |
| sun | sunos |
Public exploits
| Source | Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
| exploit-db | Sun Solaris 2.6 - power management | 1998-07-16 |
References
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