CVE-2004-1329

highpriority · track · 40OT risk · elevatedEPSS 0.033 · 88 %ileexploit · functionalEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

1 exploit · functional

Likely / severe?

3.27% (88th) EPSS

CVSS 7.2 · high

Is it mine?

8 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

2 sources

enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

Untrusted execution path vulnerability in the diag commands (1) lsmcode, (2) diag_exec, (3) invscout, and (4) invscoutd in AIX 5.1 through 5.3 allows local users to execute arbitrary programs by modifying the DIAGNOSTICS environment variable to point to a malicious Dctrl program.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.2

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 6.5–7.2

v2.07.2highAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 10

v2.06.5mediumAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C/E:POCsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-20USLLM-inferredCWE-862USLLM-inferred

exploits (1)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

EDB-25039IBM AIX 5.x - 'Diag' Local Privilege Escalationfunctional · exploit_db

affected products (8)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
ibm aix= 5.1nvdUScpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
ibm aix= 5.1lnvdUScpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
ibm aix= 5.2nvdUScpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
ibm aix= 5.2.2nvdUScpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
ibm aix= 5.2_lnvdUScpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
ibm aix= 5.3nvdUScpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
ibm aix= 5.3_lnvdUScpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (2)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2004-12-20modified 2026-06-16

references (16)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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