CVE-2011-0638
Microsoft Windows does not properly warn the user before enabling additional Human Interface Device (HID) functionality over USB, which allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary programs via crafted USB data, as demonstrated by keyboard and…
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.43%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
Microsoft Windows does not properly warn the user before enabling additional Human Interface Device (HID) functionality over USB, which allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary programs via crafted USB data, as demonstrated by keyboard and mouse data sent by malware on a smartphone that the user connected to the computer.
- CVSS 2.0
- 6.9 MEDIUMAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- EPSS
- 1.43% probability · 72th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-16
- Affected
- microsoft/windows
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20028919-245.html
- http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-dc-11/bh-dc-11-briefings.html#Stavrou
- http://www.cs.gmu.edu/~astavrou/publications.html
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12566
- http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20028919-245.html
- http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-dc-11/bh-dc-11-briefings.html#Stavrou
- http://www.cs.gmu.edu/~astavrou/publications.html
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12566
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.