CVE-2010-0221
Kingston DataTraveler BlackBox (DTBB), DataTraveler Secure Privacy Edition (DTSP), and DataTraveler Elite Privacy Edition (DTEP) USB flash…
- 2.1LowCVSS base score
- 0.48%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 58% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 15 years later
· 15 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Low2.1 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.48% · top 58% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 2.1.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
11
- http://www.kingston.com/driveupdate/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://www.syss.de/index.php?id=108&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=528&cHash=8d16fa63d9 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 1023410 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- http://it.slashdot.org/story/10/01/05/1734242/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0%2C1000000189%2C39963327%2C00.htm (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/NIST-certified-USB-Flash-drives-with-hardware-encryption-cracked-895308.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=6655 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- kingston-access-control-sec-bypass(55477) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://www.syss.de/fileadmin/ressources/040_veroeffentlichungen/dokumente/SySS_knackt_Kingston_USB-Stick.pdf (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- ADV-2010-0080 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- https://www.ironkey.com/usb-flash-drive-flaw-exposed (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2010-0252 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2010-0221)Record last updated .