CVE-2012-0681: Apple Remote Desktop

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Apple Remote Desktop before 3.6.1 does not recognize the "Encrypt all network data" setting during connections to third-party VNC servers, which allows remote attackers to obtain cleartext VNC session content by sniffing the network.

Affected products

• Apple Apple Remote Desktop: version 3.5.2 only; version 3.5.3 only; version 3.6.0 only

Published 2012-08-22. Last modified 2026-06-16.