CVE-1999-1400

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Sep 12, 2001
Updated: Aug 1, 2024
Reserved: Aug 31, 2001

Description

The Economist screen saver 1999 with the "Password Protected" option enabled allows users with physical access to the machine to bypass the screen saver and read files by running Internet Explorer while the screen is still locked.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

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19990603 Huge Exploit in NT 4.0 SP5 Screensaver with Password Protection Enabledmailing-list
19990604 Official response from The Economist re: 1999 Screen Savermailing-list
19990603 Re: Huge Exploit in NT 4.0 SP5 Screensaver with Password Protecti on Enabled.mailing-list

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