CVE-2004-2697

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2004-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-362

Description

The Inventory Scout daemon (invscoutd) 1.3.0.0 and 2.0.2 for AIX 4.3.3 and 5.1 allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on a command line argument (log file). NOTE: this might be related to CVE-2006-5002.

Affected products

IBM AIX: 4.3.3, 5.1, 5.1l

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/11200
http://www.osvdb.org/4582
http://www.securiteam.com/exploits/5CP0F0UDFG.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9982
http://www.xfocus.org/exploits/200403/31.html
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15620
http://secunia.com/advisories/11200
http://www.osvdb.org/4582
http://www.securiteam.com/exploits/5CP0F0UDFG.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9982
http://www.xfocus.org/exploits/200403/31.html
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15620

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