CVE-2010-0227

Summary

CVECVE-2010-0227
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2010-01-07 19:30:00 UTC
Updated2017-11-22 17:16:00 UTC
DescriptionVerbatim 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-255

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Hardware Verbatim Corporate Secure All All All All
Hardware Verbatim Corporate Secure All All All All
Hardware Verbatim Corporate Secure All All All All
Hardware Verbatim Corporate Secure All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Verbatim Corporate Secure USB Flash Drive Password Validation Flaw Lets Local Users Bypass Access Controls - SecurityTracker SECTRACK securitytracker.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Slashdot IT Story | Encryption Cracked On NIST-Certified Flash Drives MISC it.slashdot.org Third Party Advisory
Encryption busted on NIST-certified Kingston, SanDisk and Verbatim USB flash drives | Hardware 2.0 | ZDNet.com MISC blogs.zdnet.com Not Applicable
www.verbatim.com/security/security-update.cfm MISC www.verbatim.com Vendor Advisory
NIST-certified USB Flash drives with hardware encryption cracked - The H Security: News and Features MISC www.h-online.com Third Party Advisory
USB Vulnerabilities Exploited | IronKey MISC www.ironkey.com Broken Link
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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