$ cve CVE-2004-0549 JSON

CVE-2004-0549 EXPLOIT

10.0

HIGH · CVSS 2.0 · EPSS 61.1% (pctl 99)

Patch early

A public exploit exists.

Description

The WebBrowser ActiveX control, or the Internet Explorer HTML rendering engine (MSHTML), as used in Internet Explorer 6, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code in the Local Security context by using the showModalDialog method and modifying the location to execute code such as Javascript, as demonstrated using (1) delayed HTTP redirect operations, and an HTTP response with a Location: header containing a "URL:" prepended to a "ms-its" protocol URI, or (2) modifying the location attribute of the window, as exploited by the Download.ject (aka Scob aka Toofer) using the ADODB.Stream object.

Scoring

CVSS	10.0 (HIGH, v2.0)
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
EPSS	61.06% — more likely to be exploited than 99% of all CVEs
On CISA KEV	no
Public exploit	yes
Published	2004-08-06
Last modified	2026-06-16

Affected (1)

Vendor	Product
microsoft	internet explorer

Public exploits

Source	Title	Date
exploit-db	Microsoft Internet Explorer - Remote Wscript.Shell	2004-07-13

References

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