Executive Summary

Informations
Name CVE-2003-0838 First vendor Publication 2003-11-17
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2024-11-20

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 7.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Internet Explorer allows remote attackers to bypass zone restrictions to inject and execute arbitrary programs by creating a popup window and inserting ActiveX object code with a "data" tag pointing to the malicious code, which Internet Explorer treats as HTML or Javascript, but later executes as an HTA application, a different vulnerability than CVE-2003-0532, and as exploited using the QHosts Trojan horse (aka Trojan.Qhosts, QHosts-1, VBS.QHOSTS, or aolfix.exe).

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2003-0838

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:204
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:204
Title: IE ActiveX Popup Zone Restriction Bypass
Description: Internet Explorer allows remote attackers to bypass zone restrictions to inject and execute arbitrary programs by creating a popup window and inserting ActiveX object code with a "data" tag pointing to the malicious code, which Internet Explorer treats as HTML or Javascript, but later executes as an HTA application, a different vulnerability than CVE-2003-0532, and as exploited using the QHosts Trojan horse (aka Trojan.Qhosts, QHosts-1, VBS.QHOSTS, or aolfix.exe).
Family: windows Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2003-0838
Version: 5
Platform(s): Microsoft Windows 2000
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1
Application 8

ExploitDB Exploits

id Description
2003-09-08 Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 XML Page Object Type Validation Vulnerability

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
7872 Microsoft IE ActiveX Object Code Arbitrary Command Execution (Qhosts)

Microsoft Internet Explorer contains a flaw that may allow a malicious user to execute arbitary commands on a user's system. The issue is triggered when a user accesses a maliciously crafted HTML page. It is possible that the flaw may allow execution of arbitary commands resulting in a loss of confidentiality, integrity, and/or availability.

Snort® IPS/IDS

Date Description
2014-01-10 Windows Scripting Host Shell ActiveX CLSID unicode access
RuleID : 8067 - Revision : 8 - Type : WEB-ACTIVEX
2014-01-10 Microsoft Windows Scripting Host Shell ActiveX clsid access
RuleID : 8066 - Revision : 16 - Type : BROWSER-PLUGINS
2014-01-10 Microsoft Windows Reporting Tool ActiveX object access
RuleID : 4160 - Revision : 11 - Type : BROWSER-PLUGINS
2014-01-10 Microsoft Internet Explorer popup window object tag code execution attempt
RuleID : 15880 - Revision : 10 - Type : BROWSER-IE

Sources (Detail)

http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2003-September/009639.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106304733121753&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106304876523459&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=ntbugtraq&m=106302799428500&w=2
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/trojan.qhosts.html
http://www.ntbugtraq.com/default.asp?pid=36&sid=1&A2=ind0310&L=nt...
http://www.osvdb.org/7872
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8556
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2003/ms03...
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/13314
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.ova...
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