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CISCO released security updates for two critical security flaws impacting its smart Licensing Utility that
could allow unauthenticated, remote attackers to elevate their privileges.
A brief description of the two vulnerabilities is below –
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CVE-2024-20439 (CVSS score: 9.8): The presence of an undisclosed static user credential that an attacker could use to login to an affected system.
CVE-2024-20440 (CVSS score: 9.8): A vulnerability arising due to excessive logging that an attacker could exploit to access and obtain credentials from debug log files by crafting an HTTP request.
The flaws, which were discovered during internal security testing, also do not affect Smart Software Manager On-Prem and Smart Software Manager Satellite products.
Users are advised to update Cisco Smart License Utility to version 2.3.0 to fix the bug.
Cisco has also released updates to fix a command injection vulnerability in its identity services engine (ISE). This vulnerability could allow a local attacker wity authentication to run unauthenticated commands on the operating system and gain root privilege’s.
It impacts the following versions:
Cisco ISE 3.2 (3.2P7 – Sep 2024)
Cisco ISE 3.3 (3.3P4 – Oct 2024)
The company has also cautioned that there is a PoC exploit code available, although it hasn’t detected any malicious utilization of the flaw.
