VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-4655

critical
Published 2012-09-24 · 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 WebLaunch feature in Cisco Secure Desktop before 3.6.6020 does not properly validate binaries that are received by the downloader process, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving (1) ActiveX or (2) Java components, aka Bug IDs CSCtz76128 and CSCtz78204.

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_desktop3.1
cisco ciscosecure_desktop3.1.1
cisco ciscosecure_desktop3.1.1.27
cisco ciscosecure_desktop3.1.1.33
cisco ciscosecure_desktop3.1.1.45
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
cisco ciscosecure_desktop3.5
cisco ciscosecure_desktop3.5.841
cisco ciscosecure_desktop3.5.1077
cisco ciscosecure_desktop3.5.2001
cisco ciscosecure_desktop3.5.2008
cisco ciscosecure_desktop3.6
cisco ciscosecure_desktop3.6.181
cisco ciscosecure_desktop3.6.185
cisco ciscosecure_desktop3.6.1001
cisco ciscosecure_desktop3.6.2002
cisco ciscosecure_desktop3.6.3002
cisco ciscosecure_desktop3.6.4021
cisco ciscosecure_desktop3.6.5005

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.