CVE-2024-20440

HIGH EXPLOITED NUCLEI

Cisco Smart Licensing Utility - Info Disclosure

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

CVE-2024-20440 has been observed exploited in the wild (reported by VulnCheck KEV). A Nuclei detection template is also available.

Description

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.

Nuclei Templates (1)

Cisco Smart Licensing Utility UnAuthenticated Logs Exposure Leaking Plaintext Credentials
HIGHVERIFIEDby iamnoooob,parthmalhotra,pdresearch

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.5147
EPSS Percentile 98.8%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable yes
Technical Impact total

Details

VulnCheck KEV 2025-06-07
CWE
CWE-532
Status published
Products (3)
cisco/smart_license_utility 2.0.0
cisco/smart_license_utility 2.1.0
cisco/smart_license_utility 2.2.0
Published Sep 04, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026