CVEvulnerability
CVE-2004-0475
5.1 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2004-07-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.1 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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.
Affected configurations
• microsoft ie 6.0
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/363202 Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10348 Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16147 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/363202 Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10348 Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16147 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com