CVE-2003-0838 (GCVE-0-2003-0838)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2003-10-07 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 02:05
VLAI
Summary
Internet Explorer allows remote attackers to bypass zone restrictions to inject and execute arbitrary programs by creating a popup window and inserting ActiveX object code with a "data" tag pointing to the malicious code, which Internet Explorer treats as HTML or Javascript, but later executes as an HTA application, a different vulnerability than CVE-2003-0532, and as exploited using the QHosts Trojan horse (aka Trojan.Qhosts, QHosts-1, VBS.QHOSTS, or aolfix.exe).
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
mitre CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 29/100 over 2230 records in the last 180 days details
References
Date Public
2003-09-07 00:00
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