CVE-2010-0917

high Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
7.6
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
EPSS Score
50.1%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 2% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
High
Confidentiality
C
Integrity
C
Availability
C
Published: March 3, 2010 (5916 days ago)
Last Modified: April 29, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in VBScript in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 and SP3, and Server 2003 SP2, when Internet Explorer is used, might allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long string in the fourth argument (aka helpfile argument) to the MsgBox function, leading to code execution when the F1 key is pressed, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-0483.

CWE

CWE-119

Affected Products

microsoft windows 2000microsoft windows 2003 servermicrosoft windows server 2003microsoft windows xp

References

🔗 blogs.technet.com 🔗 isec.pl 🔗 isec.pl 🔗 www.microsoft.com 🔗 www.securityfocus.com