CVEvulnerability

CVE-2004-0213

7.8 HIGH Published 2004-08-06 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2004-08-06
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-306

Description

Utility Manager in Windows 2000 launches winhlp32.exe while Utility Manager is running with raised privileges, which allows local users to gain system privileges via a "Shatter" style attack that sends a Windows message to cause Utility Manager to launch winhlp32 by directly accessing the context sensitive help and bypassing the GUI, then sending another message to winhlp32 in order to open a user-selected file, a different vulnerability than CVE-2003-0908.

Affected configurations

• microsoft windows 2000

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-306 Missing Authentication for Critical Functionality weakness

Referenced by CWE · observed example (4)

  • CWE-271 Privilege Dropping / Lowering Errors weakness
  • CWE-306 Missing Authentication for Critical Functionality weakness
  • CWE-360 Trust of System Event Data weakness
  • CWE-422 Unprotected Windows Messaging Channel weakness

References