CVE-2012-4248

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-08-12 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

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.

Affected products

Amazon Kindle Touch: through 5.1.1; 5.1.0

References

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/122656
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/MORO-8WKGBN
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?s=c7953cc553a4aaa36e880b25aa1a6bf6&t=175368
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/122656
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/MORO-8WKGBN
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?s=c7953cc553a4aaa36e880b25aa1a6bf6&t=175368

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