CVE-2003-0974
Applied Watch Command Center allows remote attackers to conduct unauthorized activities without authentication, such as (1) add new users…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 3.3%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 11% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Applied Watch Command Center allows remote attackers to conduct unauthorized activities without authentication, such as (1) add new users to a console, as demonstrated using appliedsnatch.c, or (2) add spurious IDS rules to sensors, as demonstrated using addrule.c.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list 2 Exploit-DB entries for it.
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Exploit-DB2 entries
- Applied Watch Command Center 1.0 - Authentication Bypass (1) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 23404remote, multiplepublished 28 Nov 2003Verified
- Applied Watch Command Center 1.0 - Authentication Bypass (2) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 23405remote, multiplepublished 28 Nov 2003Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 1 day later
· 1 day later
Published
- 21 years later
· 21 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.3% · top 11% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
5
- 9124 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://www.bugtraq.org/advisories/_BSSADV-0000.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 20031128 Multiple Remote Issues in Applied Watch IDS Suite (advisory attached) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20031128 Applied Watch Response to Bugtraq.org post - Was: Multiple Remote Issues in Applied Watch IDS Suite (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20031201 Re: Multiple Remote Issues in Applied Watch IDS Suite (advisory attached) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2003-0964 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2003-0974)Record last updated .