RCE in Amazon Kindle Touch

CVE-2012-4249

The Amazon Lab126 com.lab126.system sendEvent implementation on the Kindle Touch before 5.1.2 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a string, as demonstrated by using lipc-set-prop to set an LIPC property, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-4248.

Vulnerability class: RCE (Remote Code Execution)

Published · last modified .

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 10.0 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.037 (89.4th percentile), scored .

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 89th percentile — 89.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2012-4249: held from 0.037 to 0.037.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.037 · newest: 0.037 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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