CVE-2012-4248

CriticalCVSS 9.3/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

The Amazon Kindle Touch before 5.1.2 does not properly restrict access to the libkindleplugin.so NPAPI plugin interface, which might allow remote attackers to have an unspecified impact via vectors involving the (1) dev.log, (2) lipc.set, (3) lipc.get, or (4) todo.scheduleItems method, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-4249.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 9.3/10AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weakness enumeration

CWE-264

Affected software

VendorProductVersions
n/an/an/a

References

Timeline

Published
Aug 12, 2012
Last modified
Jun 16, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2012-4248: Critical severity, CVSS 9.3 | Vulnix