Vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer
CVE-2004-0549
The WebBrowser ActiveX control, or the Internet Explorer HTML rendering engine (MSHTML), as used in Internet Explorer 6, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code in the Local Security context by using the showModalDialog method and modifying the location to execute code such as Javascript, as demonstrated using (1) delayed HTTP redirect operations, and an HTTP response with a Location: header containing a "URL:" prepended to a "ms-its" protocol URI, or (2) modifying the location attribute of the window, as exploited by the Download.ject (aka Scob aka Toofer) using the ADODB.Stream object.
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CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 10.0 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.611 (99.2th percentile), scored .
High probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — patch promptly. 99th percentile — 99.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.611 · newest: 0.611 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Microsoft Internet Explorer — versions 5.01, 5.5, 6.0
References
- www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA04-184A.html (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:207 (signature, vdb-entry)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16348 (vdb-entry)
- 62.131.86.111/analysis.htm
- www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA04-163A.html (US Government Resource, Patch, Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1133 (signature, vdb-entry)
- www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/713878 (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)
- marc.info/ (mailing-list)
- archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2004-06/0031.html (mailing-list)
- umbrella.name/originalvuln/msie/InsiderPrototype/