CVE-2008-0533
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in securecgi-bin/CSuserCGI.exe in User-Changeable Password (UCP) before 4.2 in Cisco…
- 4.3MediumCVSS base score
- 28.8%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 1.8% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in securecgi-bin/CSuserCGI.exe in User-Changeable Password (UCP) before 4.2 in Cisco Secure Access Control Server (ACS) for Windows and ACS Solution Engine allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an argument located immediately after the Help argument, and possibly unspecified other vectors.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it.
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- Cisco User-Changeable Password (UCP) 3.3.4.12.5 - 'CSUserCGI.exe' Help Facility Cross-Site Scripting (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 31395remote, windowspublished 12 Mar 2008Verified
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 cisco
- 43 days later
· 43 days later
Published
- 16 years later
· 16 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 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 28.8% · top 1.8% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
9
- http://www.recurity-labs.com/content/pub/RecurityLabs_Cisco_ACS_UCP_advisory.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 20080312 Cisco Secure Access Control Server for Windows User-Changeable Password Vulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CISCOx_transferred
- 20080312 Cisco ACS UCP Remote Pre-Authentication Buffer Overflows (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 28222 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- ADV-2008-0868 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 3743 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- 1019607 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- cisco-acs-ucp-csusercgi-xss(41156) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 29351 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_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-2008-0543 (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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