4.6Medium
Iomega Zip 100 Mb Drive
CVE-1999-1174
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.
What this means for your business
- It affects Iomega Zip 100 Mb Drive. It matters if your company, or a supplier that handles your data, runs it.
- An attacker can use it only with access to the machine itself.
What to do
- 1Check whether your company or your suppliers run Iomega Zip 100 Mb Drive, and which version. The affected versions are listed further down this page.
- 2If you do, follow the vendor's guidance. No patch reference has been published yet.
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Scoring
- CVSS
- 4.6 (v2.0)
- Vector
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Assigned by
- cve@mitre.org
Dates
- Published
- 2001-12-21
- Last modified
- 2026-09-25
- Sources
- NVD
Affected products
- Iomega Zip 100 Mb Driveall versions
As listed in the NVD configuration data. Not a statement about your estate.