Executive Summary

Informations
Name CVE-2003-1041 First vendor Publication 2004-06-14
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2021-07-23

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 5.x and 6.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary programs via a modified directory traversal attack using a URL containing ".." (dot dot) sequences and a filename that ends in "::" which is treated as a .chm file even if it does not have a .chm extension. NOTE: this bug may overlap CVE-2004-0475.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2003-1041

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1186
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1186
Title: IE .chm Directory Traversal Windows XP Vulnerability
Description: Internet Explorer 5.x and 6.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary programs via a modified directory traversal attack using a URL containing ".." (dot dot) sequences and a filename that ends in "::" which is treated as a .chm file even if it does not have a .chm extension. NOTE: this bug may overlap CVE-2004-0475.
Family: windows Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2003-1041
 Version: 8
Platform(s): Microsoft Windows XP
 Product(s): HTML Help Facility
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1943
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1943
Title: IE .chm Directory Traversal Windows 2000 Vulnerability
Description: Internet Explorer 5.x and 6.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary programs via a modified directory traversal attack using a URL containing ".." (dot dot) sequences and a filename that ends in "::" which is treated as a .chm file even if it does not have a .chm extension. NOTE: this bug may overlap CVE-2004-0475.
Family: windows Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2003-1041
 Version: 2
Platform(s): Microsoft Windows 2000
 Product(s): HTML Help Facility
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:3514
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:3514
Title: IE .chm Directory Traversal Windows Server 2003 Vulnerability
Description: Internet Explorer 5.x and 6.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary programs via a modified directory traversal attack using a URL containing ".." (dot dot) sequences and a filename that ends in "::" which is treated as a .chm file even if it does not have a .chm extension. NOTE: this bug may overlap CVE-2004-0475.
Family: windows Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2003-1041
 Version: 2
Platform(s): Microsoft Windows Server 2003
 Product(s): HTML Help Facility
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:956
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:956
Title: IE .chm Directory Traversal Windows NT Vulnerability
Description: Internet Explorer 5.x and 6.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary programs via a modified directory traversal attack using a URL containing ".." (dot dot) sequences and a filename that ends in "::" which is treated as a .chm file even if it does not have a .chm extension. NOTE: this bug may overlap CVE-2004-0475.
Family: windows Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2003-1041
 Version: 6
Platform(s): Microsoft Windows NT
 Product(s): HTML Help Facility
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 2
Application 5

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
7912 Microsoft IE showHelp() Arbitrary File Execution

Microsoft Internet Explorer contains a flaw that may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary files. The issue is triggered due to the 'showHelp()' function. It is possible that the flaw may allow a malicious web page, which invokes the 'showHelp()' function to execute known compiled help files (.chm) within the Local Computer security zone, once the page is viewed resulting in a loss of integrity.
7803 Microsoft Windows showHelp Arbitrary Code Execution

MS Windows contains a flaw that allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code outside of the web path. The issue is due to the showhelp() function not properly sanitizing user input, specifically traversal style attacks (../../) supplied via the URL target.

Snort® IPS/IDS

Date Description
2014-01-16 Microsoft Windows showHelp CHM malicious file execution attempt
RuleID : 28925 - Revision : 3 - Type : BROWSER-IE
2014-01-16 Microsoft Windows showHelp CHM malicious file execution attempt
RuleID : 28924 - Revision : 3 - Type : BROWSER-IE
2014-01-16 Microsoft Windows showHelp CHM malicious file execution attempt
RuleID : 28923 - Revision : 3 - Type : BROWSER-IE
2014-01-16 Microsoft Windows showHelp CHM malicious file execution attempt
RuleID : 28922 - Revision : 3 - Type : BROWSER-IE
2014-01-16 Microsoft Windows showHelp CHM malicious file execution attempt
RuleID : 28921 - Revision : 3 - Type : BROWSER-IE
2014-01-16 Microsoft Windows showHelp CHM malicious file execution attempt
RuleID : 28920 - Revision : 3 - Type : BROWSER-IE

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2004-07-13 Name : Arbitrary code can be executed on the remote host through the web client.
File : smb_nt_ms04-023.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
BID http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9320
BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/348521
CERT http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA04-196A.html
CERT-VN http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/187196
MS https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2004/ms04...
OVAL https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.ova...
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.ova...
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.ova...
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.ova...
XF https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/14105

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