CVE-2004-0474

Windows Xp vulnerability

CVSS

5.1

EPSS

16.2%

EPSS pct

97th

Exploited

No known

Help Center (HelpCtr.exe) may allow remote attackers to read or execute arbitrary files via an "http://" or "file://" argument to the topic parameter in an hcp:// URL. NOTE: since the initial report of this problem, several researchers have been unable to reproduce this issue.

Affected vendor

Microsoft

Affected product

Windows Xp

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Published

2004-07-07

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, high attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 16.2% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 97% of all scored CVEs.

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Confirm whether Microsoft Windows Xp is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2004-0474.
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