CVE-2002-0823

high Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS Score
64.6%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 2% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
P
Integrity
P
Availability
P
Published: August 12, 2002 (8676 days ago)
Last Modified: April 16, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

Description

Buffer overflow in Winhlp32.exe allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an HTML document that calls the HTML Help ActiveX control (HHCtrl.ocx) with a long pathname in the Item parameter.

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Products

microsoft windows helpmicrosoft windows 2000

References

🔗 marc.info 🔗 support.microsoft.com 🔗 www.iss.net 🔗 www.osvdb.org 🔗 www.securityfocus.com