Is Boot Camp a backdoor into password protected mac?

Hi!
I Have an iMac 27" with snow leapord and windows 7 pro 64 throgh boot camp installed on it. The Mac has an administator password on it because I don't want anyone accessing that information, but the windows OS does not. If someone boots up in the windows OS, will they be able to "backdoor" past the admin password in to the mac OS?
thanks,
chris

It's not "bad guys" that have access, it's just very sensitive information and the computer has been temporarily moved to a slightly less secure location (ie: not in a locked office) I tested it out today and it seems that as I suspected the password keeps the Mac OS intact because when it exits windows, it reboots into macOS.
thanks though.

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