# CVE-2024-20385: Cisco Nexus Dashboard Orchestrator SSL Certificate Validation Vulnerability

> An attacker can intercept sensitive information by bypassing SSL certificate validation during site registration in Cisco Nexus Dashboard Orchestrator.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.9 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 2 Oct 2024
- **Updated:** 2 Oct 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-qqf3-h6hq-fm58

## What is CVE-2024-20385?

CVE-2024-20385 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Cisco Nexus Dashboard Orchestrator, published on 2 Oct 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

A vulnerability in the SSL/TLS implementation of Cisco Nexus Dashboard Orchestrator (NDO) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to intercept sensitive information from an affected device. 

This vulnerability exists because the Cisco NDO Validate Peer Certificate site management feature validates the certificates for Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC), Cisco Cloud Network Controller (CNC), and Cisco Nexus Dashboard only when a new site is added or an existing one is reregistered. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by using machine-in-the-middle techniques to intercept the traffic between the affected device and Cisco NDO and then using a crafted certificate to impersonate the affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to learn sensitive information during communications between these devices.

Weakness: CWE-295 (Improper Certificate Validation)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-20385?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Cisco Nexus Dashboard Orchestrator.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-20385?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-20385 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-20385 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-20385 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Cisco Nexus Dashboard Orchestrator

- [CVE-2024-20302](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-20302/): Missing authorization in Cisco Nexus Dashboard Orchestrator (medium 5.4)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-20385 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-20385 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Cisco Nexus Dashboard Orchestrator, published on 2 Oct 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-20385 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Cisco Nexus Dashboard Orchestrator. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-20385/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-20385/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-20385
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-20385
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-20385

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-20385/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.