Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-20513

Medium

Published: 02 October 2024

Published
02 October 2024
Modified
04 June 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 5.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0030 53.6th percentile
Risk Priority 12 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-20513 is a medium-severity Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key (CWE-639) vulnerability in Cisco Meraki Mx65 Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 5.8 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 46.4% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A vulnerability in the Cisco AnyConnect VPN server of Cisco Meraki MX and Cisco Meraki Z Series Teleworker Gateway devices could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a DoS condition for targeted users of the AnyConnect service on an…

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affected device. This vulnerability is due to insufficient entropy for handlers that are used during SSL VPN session establishment. An unauthenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability by brute forcing valid session handlers. An authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability by connecting to the AnyConnect VPN service of an affected device to retrieve a valid session handler and, based on that handler, predict further valid session handlers. The attacker would then send a crafted HTTPS request using the brute-forced or predicted session handler to the AnyConnect VPN server of the device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to terminate targeted SSL VPN sessions, forcing remote users to initiate new VPN connections and reauthenticate.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

cisco
meraki mx65 firmware
17.6.0 — 18.211.2
cisco
meraki mx64 firmware
17.6.0 — 18.211.2
cisco
meraki z4c firmware
16.2 — 18.211.2
cisco
meraki z4 firmware
16.2 — 18.211.2
cisco
meraki z3c firmware
16.2 — 18.211.2
cisco
meraki z3 firmware
16.2 — 18.211.2
cisco
meraki vmx firmware
16.2 — 18.211.2
cisco
meraki mx600 firmware
16.2 — 18.211.2
cisco
meraki mx450 firmware
16.2 — 18.211.2
cisco
meraki mx400 firmware
16.2 — 18.211.2
+15 more product configuration(s) — see NVD for full list

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-639

Per-request decision making makes it harder to bypass authorization using user-controlled keys without proper validation in the decision process.

addresses: CWE-639

Consistent enforcement of approved authorizations makes bypassing via user-controlled keys ineffective.

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