A vulnerability has been found in Cisco Secure Desktop (version now known) and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown processing of the component Cache Cleaner. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-264. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, and integrity. The summary by CVE is:

A certain Cisco JAR file, as distributed in Cache Cleaner in Cisco Secure Desktop (CSD), allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted web site, aka Bug ID CSCup83001.

The weakness was presented 04/17/2015 as CSCup83001 as confirmed advisory (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at tools.cisco.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2015-0691 since 01/07/2015. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 05/09/2022). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at SecurityFocus (BID 74166†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-49781†).

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