# CVE-2003-0731: CiscoWorks Common Management Foundation (CMF) 2.1 and earlier allows the guest user to gain administrative privileges via a certain POST req

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2003-09-04 · Updated: 2024-09-16

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## 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.

## What to do

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## Related

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## References

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

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