CVE-2012-2498

medium

Published 2012-08-06 · 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

4.0

Description

Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client 3.0 through 3.0.08066 does not ensure that authentication makes use of a legitimate certificate, which allows user-assisted man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers via a crafted certificate, aka Bug ID CSCtz29197.

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.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
cisco	anyconnect_secure_mobility_client	`3.0`
cisco	anyconnect_secure_mobility_client	`3.0.0629`
cisco	anyconnect_secure_mobility_client	`3.0.07059`
cisco	anyconnect_secure_mobility_client	`3.0.08057`
cisco	anyconnect_secure_mobility_client	`3.0.08066`

References

CWEs

CWE-287

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.