CVE-2012-4655: Cisco Secure Desktop

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 4.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Cisco Secure Desktop: version 3.1 only; version 3.1.1 only; version 3.1.1.27 only; version 3.1.1.33 only; version 3.1.1.45 only; version 3.2 only; …

Published 2012-09-24. Last modified 2026-06-16.