CVE-2010-0440: Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 4.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in +CSCOT+/translation in Cisco Secure Desktop 3.4.2048, and other versions before 3.5; as used in Cisco ASA appliance before 8.2(1), 8.1(2.7), and 8.0(5); allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted POST parameter, which is not properly handled by an eval statement in binary/mainv.js that writes to start.html.

Affected products

• Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software: from 8.1, before 8.1\(2.7\) (fixed in 8.1\(2.7\)); from 8.0, before 8.0\(5\) (fixed in 8.0\(5\)); from 8.2, before 8.2\(1\) (fixed in 8.2\(1\))
• Cisco Secure Desktop: before 3.5 (fixed in 3.5)

Published 2010-02-03. Last modified 2026-06-16.