CVE-2024-20440: Cisco Smart License Utility

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 51.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Cisco Smart License Utility: version 2.0.0 only; version 2.1.0 only; version 2.2.0 only

Published 2024-09-04. Last modified 2026-06-17.