CVE-2003-0907 (GCVE-0-2003-0907)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2004-04-16 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 02:12
VLAI
Summary
Help and Support Center in Microsoft Windows XP SP1 does not properly validate HCP URLs, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via quotation marks in an hcp:// URL, which are not quoted when constructing the argument list to HelpCtr.exe.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/o-114.shtml third-party-advisorygovernment-resourcex_refsource_CIAC
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/260588 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VN
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https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/def… vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA04-104A.html third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosur… mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108196864221676&w=2 mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?i… x_refsource_MISC
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
Date Public
2004-04-13 00:00
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