CVE-2004-1329: IBM Aix

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 3.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• IBM Aix: version 5.1 only; version 5.1l only; version 5.2 only; version 5.2.2 only; version 5.2_l only; version 5.3 only; …

Published 2004-12-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.