CVE-2004-0475

Published Jul 7, 2004

Last updated 7 years ago

Overview

Description: The showHelp function in Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP Pro allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary local .CHM files via a double backward slash ("\\") before the target CHM file, as demonstrated using an "ms-its" URL to ntshared.chm. NOTE: this bug may overlap CVE-2003-1041.
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 5.1
Impact score: 6.4
Exploitability score: 4.9
Vector string: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-Other

Hype score: Not currently trending

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:ie:6.0:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "24DF2AB3-DEAB-4D70-986E-FFBB7E64B96A"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References