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CVE-2010-0222

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-0222 describes a critical security flaw in Kingston DataTraveler BlackBox, Secure Privacy Edition, and Elite Privacy Edition USB flash drives. These devices utilize a fixed 256-bit encryption key, making them vulnerable to physically proximate attackers who can determine and use this key to access or alter sensitive data. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.6 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P), indicating low attack complexity and potential for partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage 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

4.6MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.36%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
28.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0036 is in the 46th percentile among its peer group of 3,048 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 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
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
Vendor Advisory
syss.de / fileadmin/ressources/040_veroeffentlichungen/dokumente/SySS_knackt_Kingston_USB-Stick.pdf
syss.de / index.php
vupen.com / english/advisories/2010/0080