CVE-2010-0227

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-01-07 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-255

Description

Verbatim Corporate Secure and Corporate Secure FIPS Edition 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 products

Verbatim Corporate Secure: all versions

References

http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=6655
http://it.slashdot.org/story/10/01/05/1734242/
http://securitytracker.com/id?1023409
http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/NIST-certified-USB-Flash-drives-with-hardware-encryption-cracked-895308.html
http://www.verbatim.com/security/security-update.cfm
https://www.ironkey.com/usb-flash-drive-flaw-exposed
http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=6655
http://it.slashdot.org/story/10/01/05/1734242/
http://securitytracker.com/id?1023409
http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/NIST-certified-USB-Flash-drives-with-hardware-encryption-cracked-895308.html
http://www.verbatim.com/security/security-update.cfm
https://www.ironkey.com/usb-flash-drive-flaw-exposed

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