Vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer
CVE-2004-1043
Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP SP2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by using the "Related Topics" command in the Help ActiveX Control (hhctrl.ocx) to open a Help popup window containing the PCHealth tools.htm file in the local zone and injecting Javascript to be executed, as demonstrated using "writehta.txt" and the ADODB recordset, which saves a .HTA file to the local system, aka the "HTML Help ActiveX control Cross Domain Vulnerability."
EPSS: 0.450 (98.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Microsoft Internet_explorer — versions 6.0
- Microsoft Windows_xp
- N/a — versions n/a
References
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_OVAL, signature, vdb-entry)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_OVAL, signature, vdb-entry)
- cve@mitre.org (US Government Resource, x_refsource_CERT-VN, Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_OVAL, signature, vdb-entry)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MS, vendor-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (US Government Resource, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_CERT, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_OVAL, signature, vdb-entry)