CVE-2003-0731

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2003-10-20 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

CiscoWorks Common Management Foundation (CMF) 2.1 and earlier allows the guest user to gain administrative privileges via a certain POST request to com.cisco.nm.cmf.servlet.CsAuthServlet, possibly involving the "cmd" parameter with a modifyUser value and a modified "priviledges" parameter.

Affected products

Ciscoworks Cd1: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th
Ciscoworks Common Management Foundation: 2.0, 2.1
Cisco Resource Manager: 1.0, 1.1
Cisco Resource Manager Essentials: 2.0, 2.1, 2.2

References

http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20030813-cmf.shtml
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/333028
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20030813-cmf.shtml
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/333028

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