CVE-2004-0549

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

Unavailable / Other

Publication date:

06/08/2004

Last modified:

03/04/2025

Description

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 10.00 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0

10.00

Severity 2.0

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer::::::::
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:5.01:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:5.5:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:6.0:::::::*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer::::::::
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:5.01:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:5.5:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:6.0:::::::*

CVE-2004-0549

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools