Cisco Smart Licensing Utility Information Disclosure Vulnerability
CVE-2024-20440

7.5HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor
Cisco
Vendor
CVE Published:
4 September 2024

Badges

👾 Exploit Exists🟣 EPSS 82%📰 News Worthy

Summary

A vulnerability exists in the Cisco Smart Licensing Utility that allows remote attackers to access sensitive information via excessive verbosity in a debug log file. By sending a specially crafted HTTP request to the affected device, an unauthenticated attacker can exploit this issue to extract log files containing sensitive data, including credentials that could be exploited for unauthorized API access. Organizations using the affected versions should assess their exposure and consider implementing mitigations to prevent the unauthorized disclosure of sensitive information.

Affected Version(s)

Cisco Smart License Utility 2.1.0

Cisco Smart License Utility 2.0.0

Cisco Smart License Utility 2.2.0

News Articles

Active Exploitation of Vulnerabilities in Cisco Smart Licensing Utility

There have been reports of active exploitation of vulnerabilities in unpatched Cisco Smart Licensing Utility instances.

4 weeks ago

Urgent Patch Needed For CVE-2024-20439 And CVE-2024-20440

Cisco alerts users to critical vulnerabilities CVE-2024-20439 and CVE-2024-20440 in CSLU.

4 weeks ago

Hackers Target Cisco Smart Licensing Utility Vulnerabilities

SANS is seeing attempts to exploit two critical Cisco Smart Licensing Utility vulnerabilities tracked as CVE-2024-20439 and CVE-2024-20440.

1 month ago

References

EPSS Score

82% chance of being exploited in the next 30 days.

CVSS V3.1

Score:
7.5
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
None
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • 📰

    First article discovered by GBHackers News

  • 👾

    Exploit known to exist

  • Vulnerability published

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