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GHSA-MCXM-8HR3-FRMX

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-09-04 18:30 – Updated: 2025-10-22 00:33

Details

A vulnerability in Cisco Smart Licensing Utility could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to log in to 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 log in to the affected system. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to log in to the affected system with administrative privileges over the API of the Cisco Smart Licensing Utility application.

Severity

9.8 (Critical)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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CVE-2024-20439 (GCVE-0-2024-20439)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-09-04 16:28 – Updated: 2025-10-21 22:55

Summary

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.

Severity

9.8 (Critical)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: active Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-03-31 18:12 UTC

CWE

CWE-912 - Hidden Functionality

Assigner

cisco CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard C 66/100 over 442 records in the last 180 days details

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/c…
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilit…	government-resource

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Cisco	Cisco Smart License Utility	Affected: 2.1.0 Affected: 2.0.0 Affected: 2.2.0
cisco	cisco_smart_license_utility	Affected: 2.1.0 Affected: 2.0.0 Affected: 2.2.0 cpe:2.3:a:cisco:cisco_smart_license_utility::::::::

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