CiscoWorks Common Management Foundation (CMF) 2.1 and earlier allows the guest user to gain administrative privileges via a certain POST req
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.
- Published
- Oct 20, 2003
- Updated
- Jun 16, 2026
- EPSS
- 2.1% · 81th percentile
- CWE
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Action score
41
Plan
Add it to your regular patch cycle.
- CVSS
- 40 / 40 · 10.0 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 1 / 30 · 2.1%
Affected systems
| Vendor | Product | CPE |
|---|---|---|
| cisco | resource manager | cpe:2.3:a:cisco:resource_manager |
| cisco | resource manager essentials | cpe:2.3:a:cisco:resource_manager_essentials |
| cisco | ciscoworks common management foundation | cpe:2.3:a:cisco:ciscoworks_common_management_foundation |
| cisco | ciscoworks cd1 | cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ciscoworks_cd1 |
Affected versions
NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.
- cisco ciscoworks cd11st
- cisco ciscoworks cd12nd
- cisco ciscoworks cd13rd
- cisco ciscoworks cd14th
- cisco ciscoworks cd15th
- cisco ciscoworks common management foundation2.0
- cisco ciscoworks common management foundation2.1
- cisco resource manager1.0
- cisco resource manager1.1
- cisco resource manager essentials2.0
- cisco resource manager essentials2.1
- cisco resource manager essentials2.2
Same product
cisco: all recordsOther highest-scoring records for the same primary product.
- CVE-2003-0732CiscoWorks Common Management Foundation (CMF) 2.1 and earlier allows the guest user to obtain restricted information and possibly gain admin41Plan
- CVE-1999-1126Cisco Resource Manager (CRM) 1.1 and earlier creates certain files with insecure permissions that allow local users to obtain sensitive conf8Monitor
- CVE-1999-1042Cisco Resource Manager (CRM) 1.0 and 1.1 creates world-readable log files and temporary files, which may expose sensitive information, to lo4Monitor
Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
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Exploit status
No known public exploit
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Research context
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Timeline
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No dated events beyond publication.
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Patch and commit links
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Credits
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Variant candidates
Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.
No nightly-computed relations.
Chain candidates
An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.
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Bug bounty scope
No known public program.
Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).
Technical details
Attack conditions
- No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
If successful
- Confidentiality
- C · data can be read
- Integrity
- C · data or configuration can be modified
- Availability
- C · the service can be disrupted
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Confidentiality impact
- C
- Integrity impact
- C
- Availability impact
- C
Weakness class (CWE)
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CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
nvd-primary
Attack context
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References
Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.