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)
EPSS: 0.037 (88.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Amazon Kindle_touch — versions 5.1.0, 5.1.1
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC)
- cve@mitre.org (US Government Resource, x_refsource_CERT-VN, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, US Government Resource)