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CVE-2010-0221

13
FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-0221 describes a vulnerability in Kingston DataTraveler BlackBox, Secure Privacy Edition, and Elite Privacy Edition USB drives. These devices validate passwords via host-side software, not on-device hardware, allowing a physically proximate attacker to access cleartext drive contents by modifying the validation program. The vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 2.1 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N), indicating local access and low complexity are required for a partial confidentiality impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:h:kingston:datatraveler_blackbox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:h:kingston:datatraveler_elite:*:*:privacy:*:*:*:*:*
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:h:kingston:datatraveler_secure:*:*:privacy:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.1LOW

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.48%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
38.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0048 is in the 73rd percentile among its peer group of 2,096 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.6 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

blogs.zdnet.com / hardware
it.slashdot.org / story/10/01/05/1734242
news.zdnet.co.uk / security/0%2C1000000189%2C39963327%2C00.htm
securitytracker.com / id
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/55477
ironkey.com / usb-flash-drive-flaw-exposed
h-online.com / security/news/item/NIST-certified-USB-Flash-drives-with-hardware-encryption-cracked-895308.html
kingston.com / driveupdate
Exploit
syss.de / fileadmin/ressources/040_veroeffentlichungen/dokumente/SySS_knackt_Kingston_USB-Stick.pdf
syss.de / index.php
vupen.com / english/advisories/2010/0080
Vendor Advisory