CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2024-20439

Hidden Functionality

Published: Sep 04, 2024 | Modified: Apr 01, 2025
CVSS 3.x
9.8
CRITICAL
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

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.

Weakness 

The product contains functionality that is not documented, not part of the specification, and not accessible through an interface or command sequence that is obvious to the product’s users or administrators.

Affected Software 

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Smart_license_utility Cisco 2.0.0 (including) 2.3.0 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations 

References