CVE-2012-4249: Amazon Kindle Touch

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 3.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Amazon Lab126 com.lab126.system sendEvent implementation on the Kindle Touch before 5.1.2 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a string, as demonstrated by using lipc-set-prop to set an LIPC property, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-4248.

Affected products

• Amazon Kindle Touch: version 5.1.0 only; version 5.1.1 only

Published 2012-08-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.