CVE-2010-0222: Kingston Datatraveler Blackbox

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Kingston DataTraveler BlackBox (DTBB), DataTraveler Secure Privacy Edition (DTSP), and DataTraveler Elite Privacy Edition (DTEP) USB flash drives use a fixed 256-bit key for obtaining access to the cleartext drive contents, which makes it easier for physically proximate attackers to read or modify data by determining and providing this key.

Affected products

• Kingston Datatraveler Blackbox: any version
• Kingston Datatraveler Elite: any version
• Kingston Datatraveler Secure: any version

Published 2010-01-07. Last modified 2026-06-16.