CVE-2004-1624: Altiris Carbon Copy

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Carbon Copy 6.0.5257 does not drop system privileges when opening external programs through the help topic interface, which allows local users to gain privileges via (1) the help topic interface in CCW32.exe, which launches Notepad, or (2) the help button in the Carbon Copy Scheduler (CCSched.exe).

Affected products

• Altiris Carbon Copy: version 5.0 only; version 6.0 only

Published 2004-10-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.