CVEvulnerability
CVE-2010-0221
2.1 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2010-01-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
Kingston DataTraveler BlackBox (DTBB), DataTraveler Secure Privacy Edition (DTSP), and DataTraveler Elite Privacy Edition (DTEP) USB flash drives validate passwords with a program running on the host computer rather than the device hardware, which allows physically proximate attackers to access the cleartext drive contents via a modified program.
Affected configurations
• kingston datatraveler blackbox
• kingston datatraveler elite
• kingston datatraveler secure
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=6655 blogs.zdnet.com
- http://it.slashdot.org/story/10/01/05/1734242/ it.slashdot.org
- http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0%2C1000000189%2C39963327%2C00.htm news.zdnet.co.uk
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1023410 securitytracker.com
- http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/NIST-certified-USB-Flash-drives-with-hardware-encryption-cracked-895308.html www.h-online.com
- http://www.kingston.com/driveupdate/ Exploit
- http://www.syss.de/fileadmin/ressources/040_veroeffentlichungen/dokumente/SySS_knackt_Kingston_USB-Stick.pdf www.syss.de
- http://www.syss.de/index.php?id=108&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=528&cHash=8d16fa63d9 www.syss.de
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0080 Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/55477 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://www.ironkey.com/usb-flash-drive-flaw-exposed www.ironkey.com
- http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=6655 blogs.zdnet.com
- http://it.slashdot.org/story/10/01/05/1734242/ it.slashdot.org
- http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0%2C1000000189%2C39963327%2C00.htm news.zdnet.co.uk
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1023410 securitytracker.com
- http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/NIST-certified-USB-Flash-drives-with-hardware-encryption-cracked-895308.html www.h-online.com
- http://www.kingston.com/driveupdate/ Exploit
- http://www.syss.de/fileadmin/ressources/040_veroeffentlichungen/dokumente/SySS_knackt_Kingston_USB-Stick.pdf www.syss.de
- http://www.syss.de/index.php?id=108&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=528&cHash=8d16fa63d9 www.syss.de
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0080 Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/55477 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://www.ironkey.com/usb-flash-drive-flaw-exposed www.ironkey.com