{"id":57024,"date":"2024-09-05T18:15:08","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T18:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/ciscos-smart-licensing-utility-flaws-suggest-its-pretty-dumb-on-security\/"},"modified":"2024-09-05T18:15:08","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T18:15:08","slug":"ciscos-smart-licensing-utility-flaws-suggest-its-pretty-dumb-on-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/ciscos-smart-licensing-utility-flaws-suggest-its-pretty-dumb-on-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Cisco&#8217;s Smart Licensing Utility flaws suggest it&#8217;s pretty dumb on security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re running Cisco&#8217;s supposedly Smart Licensing Utility, there are two flaws you ought to patch right now.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Multiple vulnerabilities in Cisco Smart Licensing Utility could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to collect sensitive information or administer Cisco Smart Licensing Utility services on a system while the software is running,&#8221; the networking giant <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/sec.cloudapps.cisco.com\/security\/center\/content\/CiscoSecurityAdvisory\/cisco-sa-cslu-7gHMzWmw\">warned<\/a> about two critical issues.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cisco has released software updates that address these vulnerabilities. There are no workarounds that address these vulnerabilities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"adun\" data-pos=\"top\" data-raptor=\"condor\" data-xsm=\",fluid,mpu,\" data-sm=\",fluid,mpu,\" data-md=\",fluid,mpu,\"> <noscript> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/front&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=2&amp;c=2ZtoCyJCwUeCDURLsg2f3IgAAAxE&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D2%26raptor%3Dcondor%26pos%3Dtop%26test%3D0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/front&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=2&amp;c=2ZtoCyJCwUeCDURLsg2f3IgAAAxE&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D2%26raptor%3Dcondor%26pos%3Dtop%26test%3D0\" alt> <\/a> <\/noscript> <\/div>\n<p>The two independent flaws could allow a remote attacker to sign themselves in with admin privileges and subvert the whole system. That&#8217;s bad if untrusted people or rogue users can reach the licensing service. If you have other defenses in front of the Cisco software, that&#8217;ll mitigate the risk.<\/p>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"adun\" data-pos=\"top\" data-raptor=\"falcon\" data-xmd=\",fluid,mpu,leaderboard,\" data-lg=\",fluid,mpu,leaderboard,\" data-xlg=\",fluid,billboard,superleaderboard,mpu,leaderboard,\" data-xxlg=\",fluid,billboard,superleaderboard,brandwidth,brandimpact,leaderboard,mpu,\"> <noscript> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/front&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=4&amp;c=44ZtoCyJCwUeCDURLsg2f3IgAAAxE&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D4%26raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/front&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=4&amp;c=44ZtoCyJCwUeCDURLsg2f3IgAAAxE&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D426raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" alt> <\/a> <\/noscript> <\/div>\n<div class=\"adun_eagle_desktop_story_wrapper\">\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"adun\" data-pos=\"mid\" data-raptor=\"eagle\" data-xxlg=\",mpu,dmpu,\"> <noscript> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/front&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=3&amp;c=33ZtoCyJCwUeCDURLsg2f3IgAAAxE&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D3%26raptor%3Deagle%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/front&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=3&amp;c=33ZtoCyJCwUeCDURLsg2f3IgAAAxE&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D3%26raptor%3Deagle%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" alt> <\/a> <\/noscript> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The vulnerabilities are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CVE-2024-20439 &#8211; The flaw allows &#8220;an unauthenticated, remote attacker to log in to an affected system by using a static administrative credential,&#8221; Cisco said. There&#8217;s full admin access to be had for a cunning attacker.<\/li>\n<li>CVE-2024-20440 &#8211; Cisco blames &#8220;excessive verbosity in a debug log file&#8221; for this bug, which allows a carefully designed HTTP request to &#8220;obtain log files that contain sensitive data, including credentials that can be used to access the API.&#8221; In other words, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dsx2vdn7gpY\">game over, man<\/a> (NSFW language.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Both flaws have a CVSS rating of 9.8 out of 10 in severity and have no workaround. The networking biz has no further comment on the blunders.<\/p>\n<p>A Cisco spokesperson told <em>The Register<\/em>, &#8220;These vulnerabilities are not exploitable unless the Cisco Smart Licensing Utility was started by a user and is actively running.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The vendor&#8217;s Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) &#8220;is not aware of any malicious use of these vulnerabilities, and fixed software is available,&#8221; the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>The issues were found internally by network security engineer Eric Vance, so hopefully, online crims haven&#8217;t got around to exploiting them. But now that they are public, scumbags will pile in if they can find a vulnerable instance to attack, so patch now.<\/p>\n<p>Also, as always, check your support license. &#8220;Customers may only download software for which they have a valid license, procured from Cisco directly, or through a Cisco authorized reseller or partner,&#8221; it warns as a matter of course.<\/p>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"adun\" data-pos=\"top\" data-raptor=\"falcon\" data-xsm=\",fluid,mpu,\" data-sm=\",fluid,mpu,\" data-md=\",fluid,mpu,\"> <noscript> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/front&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=4&amp;c=44ZtoCyJCwUeCDURLsg2f3IgAAAxE&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D4%26raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/front&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=4&amp;c=44ZtoCyJCwUeCDURLsg2f3IgAAAxE&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D426raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" alt> <\/a> <\/noscript> <\/div>\n<p>&#8220;In most cases this will be a maintenance upgrade to software that was previously purchased. 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