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CVE-2004-2634

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2004-2634 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting IBM AIX versions 5.1 and 5.2. Specifically, the bos.rte.serv_aid or bos.rte.console filesets are susceptible to a symlink attack on temporary files, allowing local users to overwrite arbitrary files. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.2, indicating high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, but with high attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
N/AN/A
n/aCNA affected

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.2MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.9
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.31%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
23.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0031 is in the 20th percentile among its peer group of 1,595 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

secunia.com / advisories/11496
PatchVendor Advisory
securitytracker.com / id
Patch
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/16008
techsupport.services.ibm.com / server/pseries.subscriptionSvcs
Patch
www-1.ibm.com / support/search.wss
www-1.ibm.com / support/search.wss
osvdb.org / 5711
Patch
osvdb.org / 5712
Patch
securityfocus.com / bid/10231
Patch