CVE-2004-1043

medium Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
EPSS Score
74.5%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 1% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
P
Availability
None
Published: December 31, 2004 (7804 days ago)
Last Modified: April 16, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

Description

Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP SP2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by using the "Related Topics" command in the Help ActiveX Control (hhctrl.ocx) to open a Help popup window containing the PCHealth tools.htm file in the local zone and injecting Javascript to be executed, as demonstrated using "writehta.txt" and the ADODB recordset, which saves a .HTA file to the local system, aka the "HTML Help ActiveX control Cross Domain Vulnerability."

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Products

microsoft internet explorermicrosoft windows xp

References

🔗 archives.neohapsis.com 🔗 www.kb.cert.org 🔗 www.us-cert.gov 🔗 docs.microsoft.com 🔗 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com