CVE-2004-2388: IBM Aix

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

rexecd for AIX 4.3.3 does not properly use a local copy of the pwd structure when calling getpwnam, which may cause the structure to be overwritten by the authenticate function and assign privileges to the wrong user.

Affected products

• IBM Aix: version 4.3.3 only

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