CVE-2024-20439

A vulnerability in Cisco Smart Licensing Utility (CSLU) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to log into an affected system by using a static administrative credential. This vulnerability is due to an undocumented static user credential for an administrative account. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by using the static credentials to login to the affected system. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to login to the affected system with administrative rights over the CSLU application API.

CVSS v3 9.8 CRITICAL

9.8^/10

CVSS v3 : CRITICAL

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-cslu-7gHMzWmw	Vendor Advisory
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2024-20439	US Government Resource

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:cisco:smart_license_utility:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2024-09-04 17:15

Updated : 2025-10-28 13:59

NVD link : CVE-2024-20439

Mitre link : CVE-2024-20439

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2024-20439

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Products Affected

cisco

smart_license_utility

CWE

CWE-912

Hidden Functionality

CWE-798

Use of Hard-coded Credentials

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