CVE-2011-0640: Udev Project Udev

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The default configuration of udev on Linux does not 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.

Affected products

• Udev Project Udev: affected versions not specified

Published 2011-01-25. Last modified 2026-06-16.