CVEvulnerability

CVE-1999-0975

4.6 MEDIUM Published 1999-12-10 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
1999-12-10
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

The Windows help system can allow a local user to execute commands as another user by editing a table of contents metafile with a .CNT extension and modifying the topic action to include the commands to be executed when the .hlp file is accessed.

Affected configurations

• microsoft windows 95 • microsoft windows 98 • microsoft windows nt 4.0

References