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CVE-2003-0731: CiscoWorks Common Management Foundation (CMF) 2.1 and earlier allows the guest user to gain administrative…
CVE-2003-0731 has a CVSS v2 base score of 10.0 (the maximum on that scale) and affects Ciscoworks Common Management Foundation, along with 3 other products in NVD’s configuration data. Per its scoring, it can be exploited over the network, without authentication. The scored impact on confidentiality, integrity and availability is the highest available.
Vulnerability 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.
Severity breakdown
CVSS v2.0 10.0: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Access vector: Network. Exploitable remotely over the network.
- Access complexity: Low. No special conditions are required.
- Authentication: None. No authentication is needed.
- Confidentiality impact: Complete. Total information disclosure.
- Integrity impact: Complete. Total loss of integrity.
- Availability impact: Complete. Total shutdown of the component.
Affected products
- 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
- Ciscoworks Cd1: 1st; 2nd; 3rd; 4th; 5th