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:Jul 16, 1998
Last Modified:Apr 16, 2026
EPS:Mar 9, 2002
EPSS Score:0.06437
CVSS Score:7.5
Affected Products
Vendor
Product
Action
Vendor
Sun
Product
Solaris
Sun
Solaris
Vendor
Sun
Product
Sunos
Sun
Sunos
Common Weakness Enumeration
No CWE recorded yet
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
No CAPEC recorded yet
Related CVEs
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
Attack Vector
Network
Adjacent
Local
Physical
Privileges Required
None
Low
High
User Interaction
None
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Changed
Confidentiality
None
Low
High
Integrity
None
Low
High
Availability
None
Low
High
