CVE-2004-2697

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Summary

CVECVE-2004-2697
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2004-12-31 05:00:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
DescriptionThe 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 6.9 from [email protected]

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Problem Types: CWE-362 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Complete
Integrity
Complete
Availability
Complete

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Ibm Aix 4.3.3 All All All
Operating System Ibm Aix 5.1 All All All
Operating System Ibm Aix 5.1l All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Secunia - Advisories - AIX invscoutd Insecure Logfile Handling Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
x_invscoutd_aix5l_4x.pl af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.xfocus.org
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
www.osvdb.org/4582 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.osvdb.org
AIX Invscoutd Symbolic Link Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Exploit
'IBM AIX Inventory Scout Log File Vulnerability (invscoutd)' - SecuriTeam af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securiteam.com
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