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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.6

CVE-2004-2050 json

eSeSIX Thintune thin clients running firmware 2.4.38 and earlier allow local users to gain privileges by pressing CTRL-SHIFT-ALT-DEL and en…

published 2004-12-31 21 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2004-2042

cvss
4.6
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 38%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Exploit prediction

0.44% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 38% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • securityfocus.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10794 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • secunia.com http://secunia.com/advisories/12154 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.6 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.