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CVE-2004-0549

CVE-2004-0549 PUBLISHED CVSS 10 CRITICAL

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.

EPSS 69.05% · 98.7th percentile

Risk Scores

CVSS 2.0
10
EPSS Score
69.05%
98.7th percentile

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
n/an/a*
microsoftinternet_explorer5.5, 6.0, 5.01

Timeline

  • CVE Published
  • Sep 23, 2010 PoC Published
  • Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
  • Mar 29, 2022 EPSS Score
  • Jul 12, 2022 EPSS Score
  • Sep 4, 2022 EPSS Score
  • Oct 26, 2022 EPSS Score
  • Dec 18, 2022 EPSS Score
  • Mar 7, 2023 EPSS Score
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