Auth bypass in Cisco Catos

CVE-2003-0216

Unknown vulnerability in Cisco Catalyst 7.5(1) allows local users to bypass authentication and gain access to the enable mode without a password.

Vulnerability class: Broken Authentication

Published 2003-05-12 · last modified 2026-06-16.

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 9.3 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.019 (79.3th percentile), scored 2026-10-20.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 79th percentile — 79.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.019 · newest: 0.019 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Cisco Catos — versions 7.5(1), 7.5\(1\)

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-287 — Improper Authentication

References

www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20030424-catos.shtml. (vendor-advisory)
www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/443257 (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)