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CVE-2004-0475

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CVE-2004-0475

Published: May 20, 2004

Modified: Aug 8, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

The showHelp function in Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP Pro allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary local .CHM files via a double backward slash ("\\") before the target CHM file, as demonstrated using an "ms-its" URL to ntshared.chm. NOTE: this bug may overlap CVE-2003-1041.

VendorProductVersions

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affected
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References

10348
vdb-entry
x_refsource_BID
20040513 Showhelp() local CHM file execution
mailing-list
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ie-showhelp-chm-execution(16147)
vdb-entry
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