CiscoWorks Common Management Foundation (CMF) 2.1 and earlier allows the guest user to obtain restricted information and possibly gain admin
CiscoWorks Common Management Foundation (CMF) 2.1 and earlier allows the guest user to obtain restricted information and possibly gain administrative privileges by changing the "guest" user to the Admin user on the Modify or delete users pages.
- 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-2003-0731CiscoWorks Common Management Foundation (CMF) 2.1 and earlier allows the guest user to gain administrative privileges via a certain POST req41Plan
- 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
Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.
No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.
Exploit status
No known public exploit
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Research context
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Timeline
From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.
No dated events beyond publication.
FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).
Patch and commit links
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No commit or PR link among the references.
Credits
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No credits in the CNA record.
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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Noroxi analysis
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References
Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.