⚠ Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV) Tracker

Description

A vulnerability in the authentication system of Cisco Smart Software Manager On-Prem (SSM On-Prem) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to change the password of any user, including administrative users. This vulnerability is due to improper implementation of the password-change process. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted HTTP requests to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow an attacker to access the web UI or API with the privileges of the compromised user.

Lifecycle Timeline

• 2024-07-17
  CVE published

  Entered the public CVE record.

  CVE.org →
• 2024-07-18
  First national advisory 1 day later

  CERT-EU — 2024-070: Critical Vulnerabilities in Cisco Products

  CyberzSOC advisory index →
• 2024-07-20
  Public exploit code 2 days later

  Metasploit — Cisco Smart Software Manager (SSM) On-Prem Account Takeover (CVE-2024-20419)

  Metasploit →
• not recorded
  EPSS flags exploitation risk

  Reached 10% only through a model recalibration, which moves every score at once and says nothing about this CVE.
• not recorded
  Added to CISA KEV

  Not in the CISA KEV catalog.
• not recorded
  Federal remediation due

  No remediation deadline set.
• not recorded
  Vendor fix published

  No dated vendor fix. Only Microsoft publishes a machine-readable release date; other vendors state a fixed version without one.

Each milestone comes from a different source, so gaps between them are gaps in what those sources publish, not evidence that nothing happened. EPSS history for this CVE holds 126 points from 2024-07-20, tracked daily from 2026-09-09; earlier points are weekly, which dates a spike to within a week. Peak probability 91.5% on 2025-08-30.

Published Applicability

Check whether a specific version is affected →

What each source publishes about which product versions carry this vulnerability, kept as written rather than merged. Absence here means no source has published applicability data, not that nothing is affected.

Research & News Coverage

No mentions found in monitored research blogs or news feeds.

Detection & Exploitation

Coverage across public collections only: Nuclei and OpenVAS NVT (scan); Snort and Suricata ET Open (network); Sigma and YARA (host/SIEM); Metasploit, Exploit-DB and public GitHub repositories (exploit). Absence here means nothing public was found, not that detection is impossible.
GitHub PoC repositories are collected automatically by PoC-in-GitHub (CC0) and are not vetted: some are fakes and some are malware. Treat them as evidence that code was published, not as code to run.
OpenVAS coverage derives from the Greenbone Community Feed, made available under the Open Database License (ODbL) v1.0; its individual Vulnerability Tests are licensed GNU GPL v2.

CISA Assessment (Vulnrichment / SSVC)

D3FEND Countermeasures

Defensive techniques inferred by MITRE D3FEND from the underlying weakness (CWE-620) — general hardening and detection guidance for this weakness class, not a vendor patch for this specific CVE.

Listed By

Referenced in Advisories

Weaponization Timeline — Offensive & Testing Tools

No exploit-tool sightings recorded for this CVE.

Evidence tiers are explained on the About page — a merged Metasploit module is far stronger evidence than a distro package mention.

External References

CVE.org record → NVD entry → FortiGuard Labs → Rapid7 AttackerKB →