Cisco CiscoWorks Common Management Foundation up to 2.1 POST Request cmd/priviledges privileges management

| CVSS Meta Temp Score | Current Exploit Price (≈) | CTI Interest Score |
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Summary
A vulnerability identified as critical has been detected in Cisco CiscoWorks Common Management Foundation up to 2.1. Impacted is an unknown function of the component POST Request Handler. Performing a manipulation of the argument cmd/priviledges results in privileges management. This vulnerability was named CVE-2003-0731. There is no available exploit.
Details
A vulnerability, which was classified as very critical, was found in Cisco CiscoWorks Common Management Foundation up to 2.1. This affects some unknown functionality of the component POST Request Handler. The manipulation of the argument cmd/priviledges with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:
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.
The weakness was presented 10/20/2003 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at cisco.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2003-0731 since 09/03/2003. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 05/04/2019). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.
There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.
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Product
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Website
- Vendor: https://www.cisco.com/
CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
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VulDB Meta Base Score: 9.8VulDB Meta Temp Score: 9.8
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Exploiting
Class: Privileges managementCWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes
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Countermeasures
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Timeline
09/03/2003 🔍10/20/2003 🔍
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08/15/2014 🔍
05/04/2019 🔍
Sources
Vendor: cisco.comAdvisory: cisco.com
Status: Not defined
CVE: CVE-2003-0731 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2003-0731
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-20883
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Entry
Created: 08/15/2014 14:31Updated: 05/04/2019 10:55
Changes: 08/15/2014 14:31 (47), 05/04/2019 10:55 (1)
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