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CVE-2012-4248

HIGH · CVSS 9.3EPSS 3.5%EU EUVD

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.

Key facts

CVSS score
9.3 (v2.0)
Severity
HIGH
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-264
EPSS score
3.5% (89th percentile)
In CISA KEV
No
In EU EUVD
Yes (EUVD-2012-4192)
Published
August 12, 2012
NVD last modified
June 16, 2026
Status
Modified

EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)

This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2012-4192 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on September 16, 2024.

View on the EU Vulnerability Database

Affected products

  • amazon / kindle touch
  • amazon / kindle touch

References

Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS

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