CVE-2004-0213
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…
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Description
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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 20.07% probability · 97th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-306
- Affected
- microsoft/windows 2000
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108975382413405&w=2Mailing List
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/868580Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA04-196A.htmlBroken Link, Patch, Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2004/ms04-019Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16592Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A2495Broken Link
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108975382413405&w=2Mailing List
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/868580Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA04-196A.htmlBroken Link, Patch, Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2004/ms04-019Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16592Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A2495Broken Link
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.