FKIE_CVE-2004-0213

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2004-08-06 04:00 - Updated: 2026-06-16 22:05
Severity
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
Utility Manager in Windows 2000 launches winhlp32.exe while Utility Manager is running with raised privileges, which allows local users to gain system privileges via a "Shatter" style attack that sends a Windows message to cause Utility Manager to launch winhlp32 by directly accessing the context sensitive help and bypassing the GUI, then sending another message to winhlp32 in order to open a user-selected file, a different vulnerability than CVE-2003-0908.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108975382413405&w=2Mailing List
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/868580Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA04-196A.htmlBroken Link, Patch, Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
cve@mitre.orghttps://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2004/ms04-019Patch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16592Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttps://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A2495Broken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108975382413405&w=2Mailing List
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/868580Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA04-196A.htmlBroken Link, Patch, Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2004/ms04-019Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16592Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A2495Broken Link
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
microsoft windows_2000 -
microsoft windows_2000 -
microsoft windows_2000 -
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