CVE-2024-20439

critical · 9.8Actively exploited

On the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Added 2025-03-31Remediation due 2025-04-21

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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.

9.8

CVSS

92.1%

EPSS (exploit prob.)

100th

EPSS percentile

2024-09-04

Published

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

Weaknesses

CWE-912CWE-798

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
cisco	smart_license_utility	>= 2.0.0, < 2.3.0

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References

Query this programmatically:

curl https://evil-db.io/api/v1/cve/CVE-2024-20439