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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Dec 31, 2004· Updated Jun 16, 2026

CVE-2004-2697

CVE-2004-2697

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.

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Affected products

4
  • IBM/Aix3 versions
    cpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:4.3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 2 more
    • cpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:4.3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:5.1l:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • IBM/Inventory Scout daemonllm-create
    Range: 1.3.0.0, 2.0.2

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