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CVE-2004-0549

high · 10

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.

10
CVSS
61.1%
EPSS (exploit prob.)
99th
EPSS percentile
2004-08-06
Published

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
microsoftinternet_explorerall versions
microsoftinternet_explorer5.01
microsoftinternet_explorer5.5
microsoftinternet_explorer6.0

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References

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