CVE-2003-0982: Cisco Application And Content Networking Software

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 4.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Cisco Application And Content Networking Software: version 4.0.3 only; version 4.1.1 only; version 4.1.3 only; version 4.2 only; version 4.2.7 only; version 4.2.9 only; …
• Cisco Content Distribution Manager 4630: any version; version 4.0 only; version 4.1 only
• Cisco Content Distribution Manager 4650: any version; version 4.0 only; version 4.1 only
• Cisco Content Distribution Manager 4670: any version
• Cisco Content Engine: version 507 only; version 507_2.2_.0 only; version 507_3.1 only; version 507_4.0 only; version 507_4.1 only; version 560 only; …
• Cisco Content Engine Module: version for_cisco_router_2600_series only; version for_cisco_router_3600_series only; version for_cisco_router_3700_series only
• Cisco Content Router 4430: any version
• Cisco Content Router 4450: any version
• Cisco Enterprise Content Delivery Network Software: version 4.0 only; version 4.1 only

Published 2004-01-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.