CVE-2024-20440 (GCVE-0-2024-20440)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-09-04 16:28 – Updated: 2025-04-01 21:47
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Summary
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.
Severity ?
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-532 - Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File
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Vendor Product Version
Cisco Cisco Smart License Utility Affected: 2.1.0
Affected: 2.0.0
Affected: 2.2.0
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