CVE-2012-4249

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.7% 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-94

Description

The Amazon Lab126 com.lab126.system sendEvent implementation on the Kindle Touch before 5.1.2 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a string, as demonstrated by using lipc-set-prop to set an LIPC property, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-4248.

Affected products

Amazon Kindle Touch: 5.1.0, 5.1.1

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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