CVE-2024-20439

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 vulnerabilit

Severity
Critical 9.8
CVSS 3.1
Exploited
Yes — in CISA KEV
Added Mar 31, 2025
EPSS
0.921
99.8th percentile
Discovered by
Vendor
Published by the vendor
Published
Sep 4, 2024
Assigned by cisco

Description

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: CWE-912

Affected products

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Vendor-reported affected versions (4)
  • Cisco · Cisco Smart License Utility
  • cisco · cisco_smart_license_utility
  • cisco · cisco_smart_license_utility
  • cisco · cisco_smart_license_utility