01 Record
CVE-2021-30355
Amazon Kindle e-reader prior to and including version 5.13.4 improperly manages privileges, allowing the framework user to elevate privileges to root.
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: checkpoint
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
Amazon Kindle e-reader prior to and including version 5.13.4 improperly manages privileges, allowing the framework user to elevate privileges to root.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 6.90% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 94.0% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 8.6 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2021-09-01 18:04Z5 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-03 22:32Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2021-04-07
- Assigning CNA
- checkpoint
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-269Improper Privilege ManagementClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 99d95cdffad4139a1008b59e24bf33cec45ed8b0bb2284ad90548ddeb6df22dc
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- research.checkpoint.comhttps://research.checkpoint.com/2021/i-can-take-over-your-kindle/