# CVE-2024-24915: SmartConsole Sensitive Credential Exposure via Memory Dump

> Administrators can extract sensitive credentials from SmartConsole memory dumps, exposing secrets to privileged local users.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.1 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 29 Jun 2025
- **Updated:** 30 Jun 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-jjmc-hpg2-7v48

## What is CVE-2024-24915?

CVE-2024-24915 is a medium-severity vulnerability in checkpoint Check Point SmartConsole, published on 29 Jun 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

Credentials are not cleared from memory after being used. A user with Administrator permissions can execute memory dump for SmartConsole process and fetch them.

Weakness: CWE-312 (Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information), CWE-316 (Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information in Memory)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-24915?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Checkpoint Smartconsole.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-24915?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-24915 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-24915 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-24915 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in checkpoint Check Point SmartConsole

- [CVE-2020-6024](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-6024/): Privilege escalation in Check Point SmartConsole (high 7.8)
- [CVE-2024-24916](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-24916/): DLL-HiJacking (medium 6.5)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-24915 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-24915 is a medium-severity vulnerability in checkpoint Check Point SmartConsole, published on 29 Jun 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-24915 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: checkpoint Check Point SmartConsole. 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-2024-24915/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-24915/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-24915
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-24915
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-24915

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-24915/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.
