VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2010-0589

critical
Published 2010-04-15 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
9.3

Description

The Web Install ActiveX control (CSDWebInstaller) in Cisco Secure Desktop (CSD) before 3.5.841 does not properly verify the signatures of downloaded programs, which allows remote attackers to force the download and execution of arbitrary files via a crafted web page, aka Bug ID CSCta25876.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
cisco ciscosecure_desktop{"endIncluding":"3.5"}
cisco ciscosecure_desktop3.1
cisco ciscosecure_desktop3.1.1
cisco ciscosecure_desktop3.1.1.27
cisco ciscosecure_desktop3.1.1.33
cisco ciscosecure_desktop3.2
cisco ciscosecure_desktop3.2.1
cisco ciscosecure_desktop3.3
cisco ciscosecure_desktop3.4
cisco ciscosecure_desktop3.4.1
cisco ciscosecure_desktop3.4.2
cisco ciscosecure_desktop3.4.2048

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.