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CVE-2010-0917

CVE information

Published

14 years ago

Last Modified

5 years ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

High

Impact Analysis

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in VBScript in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 and SP3, and Server 2003 SP2, when Internet Explorer is used, might allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long string in the fourth argument (aka helpfile argument) to the MsgBox function, leading to code execution when the F1 key is pressed, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-0483..

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity
High
Base Score
7.6/10
Exploit Score
4.9/10
Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
High
Authentication Required
None
Impact Score
10/10
Confidentiality Impact
Complete
Availability Impact
Complete
Integrity Impact
Complete

Products Affected

CPE Affected Vulnerable Excluding Edit
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_2000:*:sp4:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
-
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_2003_server:*:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
-
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_2003_server:*:sp2:itanium:*:*:*:
  Yes
-
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2003:*:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
-
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_xp:*:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
-
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_xp:*:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
-
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_xp:-:sp2:x64:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
-
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  No
-
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  No
-
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  No
-