or perhaps some password to a file or something?) I left the field blank and just hit 'Unlock'. It didn't even specify which password it wanted (user, admin, root. This wasn't the typical OS X password window. A few seconds later it popped up a message, 'This update is locked by a password' with a text field labeled 'Password'.
I don't know what the major number was, but the minor number was 51, as I recall. Java popped up and said a new version was available.