CVE-2021-37436

Summary

CVECVE-2021-37436
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-07-24 23:15:00 UTC
Updated2021-08-09 17:26:00 UTC
DescriptionAmazon Echo Dot devices through 2021-07-02 sometimes allow attackers, who have physical access to a device after a factory reset, to obtain sensitive information via a series of complex hardware and software attacks. NOTE: reportedly, there were vendor marketing statements about safely removing personal content via a factory reset. Also, the vendor has reportedly indicated that they are working on mitigations.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Hardware Amazon Echo Dot - All All All
Operating System Amazon Echo Dot Firmware All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3448300.3467820 MISC dl.acm.org
Amazon Echo Dot Does Not Wipe Personal Content After Factory Reset | Hacker News MISC news.ycombinator.com
Is It Possible To Make IoT Devices Private? Amazon Echo Dot Does Not Wipe Personal Content After Factory Reset - CPO Magazine MISC www.cpomagazine.com
Thinking about selling your Echo Dot—or any IoT device? Read this first | Ars Technica MISC arstechnica.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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