CVE-2005-1590: Altiris Client Service

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Altiris Client Service for Windows (ACLIENT.EXE) 6.0.88 allows local users to disable password protection and access the administrative interface by finding and showing the "Altiris Client Service" hidden window, disabling the password protection, disabling the "Hide client tray icon box" option, then opening the AClient tray icon and using the View Log File option, a different vulnerability than CVE-2004-2070.

Affected products

• Altiris Client Service: version 6.0.88 only
• Altiris Deployment Solution: version 5.6 only; version 5.6.181 only; version 6.0 only

Published 2005-05-16. Last modified 2026-06-16.