CVE-2003-0731

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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: 2003-10-20 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2003-0731 is rated High Exploit Risk (82.9/100): CVSS Critical severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 2.09%). Core evidence: 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2003-0731

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2003-0731

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-07-14 1.98% 2.09% +0.12%
2 2026-06-15 0.38% 1.98% +1.59%
3 2025-03-30 0.38%

Full EPSS history (7 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2003-0731

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
10.0 2.0 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:C)
Complete confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:C)
Complete integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:C)
Complete availability impact.
10.0 10.0 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2003-0731

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2003-0731

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
cisco resource_manager 1.0 cpe:2.3:a:cisco:resource_manager:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cisco resource_manager 1.1 cpe:2.3:a:cisco:resource_manager:1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cisco resource_manager_essentials 2.0 cpe:2.3:a:cisco:resource_manager_essentials:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cisco resource_manager_essentials 2.1 cpe:2.3:a:cisco:resource_manager_essentials:2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cisco resource_manager_essentials 2.2 cpe:2.3:a:cisco:resource_manager_essentials:2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cisco ciscoworks_common_management_foundation 2.0 cpe:2.3:a:cisco:ciscoworks_common_management_foundation:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cisco ciscoworks_common_management_foundation 2.1 cpe:2.3:a:cisco:ciscoworks_common_management_foundation:2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cisco ciscoworks_cd1 1st cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ciscoworks_cd1:1st:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cisco ciscoworks_cd1 2nd cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ciscoworks_cd1:2nd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cisco ciscoworks_cd1 3rd cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ciscoworks_cd1:3rd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cisco ciscoworks_cd1 4th cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ciscoworks_cd1:4th:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cisco ciscoworks_cd1 5th cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ciscoworks_cd1:5th:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2003-0731

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