CVE Catalog

CVE-1999-1174

Medium
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.35%

27th percentile - higher than 27% of all known CVEs

Summary

ZIP drive for Iomega ZIP-100 disks allows attackers with physical access to the drive to bypass password protection by inserting a known disk with a known password, waiting for the ZIP drive to power down, manually replacing the known disk with the target disk, and using the known password to access the target disk.

Risk Assessment

An individual with physical access can gain access to password-protected data on ZIP disks, leading to confidentiality breach.

Recommendation

Physically secure ZIP drives and store disks in a safe location; consider using stronger data encryption.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

ZIP drive for Iomega ZIP-100 disks allows attackers with physical access to the drive to bypass password protection by inserting a known disk with a known password, waiting for the ZIP drive to power down, manually replacing the known disk with the target disk, and using the known password to access the target disk.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS