CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2024-20440

Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

Published: Sep 04, 2024 | Modified: Sep 19, 2024
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

A vulnerability in Cisco Smart Licensing Utility could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to access sensitive information.

This vulnerability is due to excessive verbosity in a debug log file. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted HTTP request to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to obtain log files that contain sensitive data, including credentials that can be used to access the API.

Weakness

The product writes sensitive information to a log file.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Smart_license_utility Cisco 2.0.0 (including) 2.0.0 (including)
Smart_license_utility Cisco 2.1.0 (including) 2.1.0 (including)
Smart_license_utility Cisco 2.2.0 (including) 2.2.0 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References