CVE-2004-1054
Untrusted execution path vulnerability in invscout in IBM AIX 5.1.0, 5.2.0, and 5.3.0 allows local users to gain privileges by modifying…
- 7.2HighCVSS base score
- 0.95%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 38% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Untrusted execution path vulnerability in invscout in IBM AIX 5.1.0, 5.2.0, and 5.3.0 allows local users to gain privileges by modifying the PATH environment variable to point to a malicious "uname" program, which is executed from lsvpd after lsvpd has been invoked by invscout.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list 2 Exploit-DB entries for it.
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Exploit-DB2 entries
- AIX 5.3.0 - 'invscout' Local Command Execution (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 898local, aixpublished 25 Mar 2005Verified
- AIX 4.3/5.1 < 5.3 - 'lsmcode' Execution Privilege Escalation (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 701local, aixpublished 21 Dec 2004Verified
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 mitre
- 34 days later
· 34 days later
Published
- 20 years later
· 20 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 | High7.2 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.95% · top 38% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.2.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
5
- 20041220 IBM AIX invscout Local Command Execution Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_IDEFENSEx_transferred
- aix-invscout-gain-privileges(18619) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- IY64852 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPARx_transferred
- IY64820 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPARx_transferred
- IY64976 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPARx_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-2004-1052 (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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