Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 2000
CVE-2003-0469
Buffer overflow in the HTML Converter (HTML32.cnv) on various Windows operating systems allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via cut-and-paste operation, as demonstrated in Internet Explorer 5.0 using a long "align" argument in an HR tag.
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CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.446 (98.7th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 99th percentile — 98.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.446 · newest: 0.446 · change: 0.000
Affected products
References
- marc.info/ (mailing-list)
- www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003-14.html (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)
- lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2003-June/006067.html (mailing-list)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/8016 (vdb-entry)
- www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/823260 (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)
- docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2003/ms03-023 (vendor-advisory)
- lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2003-July/006155.html (mailing-list)