CVE-2005-2117

Severity

51%

Complexity

49%

Confidentiality

106%

Web View in Windows Explorer on Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP1 and SP2, and Server 2003 does not properly handle certain HTML characters in preview fields, which allows remote user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code.

Web View in Windows Explorer on Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP1 and SP2, and Server 2003 does not properly handle certain HTML characters in preview fields, which allows remote user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5.1. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: high. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

Type

Microsoft

First reported 19 years ago

2005-10-21 18:02:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-12 21:37:00

Affected Software

Microsoft windows_explorer

Microsoft windows xp_sp1 tablet_pc

Microsoft windows xp_sp2 tablet_pc

References

17168

17172

17223

http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2005-214.pdf

15064

TA05-284A

US Government Resource

MS05-049

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1291

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