CVE-2004-2050: Esesix Thintune Extreme

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

eSeSIX Thintune thin clients running firmware 2.4.38 and earlier allow local users to gain privileges by pressing CTRL-SHIFT-ALT-DEL and entering the "maertsJ" password, which is hard-coded into lshell.

Affected products

• Esesix Thintune Extreme: version 2.4.38 only
• Esesix Thintune L: version 2.4.38 only
• Esesix Thintune M: version 2.4.38 only
• Esesix Thintune Mobile: version 2.4.38 only
• Esesix Thintune S: version 2.4.38 only
• Esesix Thintune Xm: version 2.4.38 only
• Esesix Thintune Xs: version 2.4.38 only

Published 2004-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.