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Cisco Smart Licensing Utility UnAuthenticated Logs Exposure Leaking Plaintext Credentials
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About CVE-2024-20440. What It Means.
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.
FAQ
Common Questions.
Cisco Smart Licensing Utility UnAuthenticated Logs Exposure Leaking Plaintext Credentials. 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.
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CVE-2024-20440 is not on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list at the time of writing, but it is still worth fixing. Its CVSS score is 7.5.
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It means no sign of CVE-2024-20440 was found by this read-only check. It does not prove the site is free of other weaknesses.
Update the affected software to the latest version from the vendor, or follow the vendor's advice to switch off the affected feature. The vendor links and details are in the CVE-2024-20440 briefing linked on this page.
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