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Vulnerability · CVE-2024-20440

Cisco Smart Licensing Utility Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

Published Jun 7, 2025 · catalog updated Jun 7, 2025 · Cisco Smart Licensing Utility

Patch now

CVE-2024-20440 is in the CISA known-exploited catalog. Confirm Cisco Smart Licensing Utility against the vendor advisory and apply that fix. The CVSS score does not change the priority.

Gaps on this record

  • No version range is stored. A customer cannot check an installed version against this record.
Severity
Unknown—
Known exploitation
CISA KEV and VulnCheck KEV
EPSS
51.90%
Remediation
Remediation guidance
Affected products
vendor Cisco Smart Licensing Utility

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. VulnCheck canary evidence.

Are you affected?

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  • vendor Cisco Smart Licensing Utilityversion unspecified

How to fix CVE-2024-20440

What to do

Three questions, each answered from this record only. Confirm the vendor advisory before you patch.

Should you patch?

CVE-2024-20440 is in the CISA known-exploited catalog. Confirm Cisco Smart Licensing Utility against the vendor advisory and apply that fix. The CVSS score does not change the priority.

Which versions are affected?

Affected version ranges are not on this record. Apply remediations or mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if remediation or mitigations are unavailable.

What should an analyst verify?

No weakness class is stored. EPSS 51.90%. The CISA KEV listing is the exploitation evidence. No Exploit-DB or Metasploit reference is linked. Use the source links for the original advisory.

Technology hubs

Cisco security

Code

The project this record applies to. Exploit listings stay in References.

No public source repository is identified for this product.

Timeline

Detection, updates, and resolution for this record.

  1. Jun 7, 2025 · VulnCheck KEV

    Detected

    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, inc

  2. Jun 7, 2025 · CISA KEV

    Known exploited

    Apply remediations or mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if remediation or mitigations are unavailable.

Sources

  • CVE.orgVulnerability recordCVE-2024-20440

    Official CVE identifier

    cve.org
  • FIRST EPSSExploitation probabilityCVE-2024-20440

    30-day exploitation probability 51.9%

    first.org
  • VulnCheck KEVConfirmed exploitationCVE-2024-20440

    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 t

    vulncheck.com

References

Freshness

Last verified in this catalog Oct 18, 2026. Significant claims (KEV, EPSS, CVSS, affected ranges) come from the source rows above — open the original publisher for the authoritative advisory.