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CVE-2003-0982
Buffer overflow in the authentication module for Cisco ACNS 4.x before 4.2.11, and 5.x before 5.0.5, allows remote attackers to execute…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 4.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 8.3% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Buffer overflow in the authentication module for Cisco ACNS 4.x before 4.2.11, and 5.x before 5.0.5, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long password.
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)
- 4.6% · top 8.3% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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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
- 20031210 Vulnerability in Authentication Library for ACNS (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CISCOx_transferred
- VU#352462 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- cisco-acns-password-bo(13945) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 10409 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 9187 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_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-2003-0972 (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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