SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog NG < 1.3.1 Sensitive Information Disclosure (CVE-2024-45718)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 299668

Synopsis

The remote host has an installation of SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog NG that is affected by a sensitive information disclosure vulnerability.

Description

According to its self-reported version, the SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog NG installation on the remote host is version 1.3 or earlier. It is, therefore, affected by a cleartext storage of sensitive information vulnerability.

Sensitive data could be exposed to non-privileged users in a configuration file. Exploitation requires local access to the computer with a low-privileged account to access the configuration file containing the sensitive data.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog NG to version 1.3.1 or later.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 299668

File Name: solarwinds_kiwi_CVE-2024-45718.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: windows

Family: Windows

Published: 2/20/2026

Updated: 2/20/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 1.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-45718

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:solarwinds:kiwi_syslog_server

Required KB Items: installed_sw/SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/11/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/11/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-45718

IAVB: 2025-B-0023

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