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Cisco Smart Licensing Utility Static Credential Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV
2025-03-31
Remediation due
2025-04-21

Required action
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

CISA notes
https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-cslu-7gHMzWmw ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-20439

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1 · CNA9.8 CRITICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC · CISA-ADP
Exploitationactive
Automatableyes
Technical impacttotal

Affected Products

VendorProductAffected versions
CiscoCisco Smart License Utility
2.1.0
2.0.0
2.2.0

References

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Record Details

Published
2024-09-04
Last updated
2025-10-21
Assigner (CNA)
cisco
Credited to
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