CVE-2004-0199 Code injection in n/a

What is CVE-2004-0199?

CVE-2004-0199 is a medium-severity code injection vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 2003 Server, published on 14 May 2004. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Help and Support Center in Microsoft Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 SP1 does not properly validate HCP URLs, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code, as demonstrated using certain hcp:// URLs that access the DVD Upgrade capability (dvdupgrd.htm).

Which versions are affected by CVE-2004-0199?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Microsoft Windows 2003 Server, Microsoft Windows Xp.

How do I fix CVE-2004-0199?

No fix has been published for CVE-2004-0199 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2004-0199 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2004-0199 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows 2003 Server

• CVE-2008-0015 Microsoft Windows Video ActiveX Control Remote Code Execution Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2015-1701 Microsoft Win32k Privilege Escalation Exploited High 7.8
• CVE-2013-5065 Microsoft Windows Kernel Privilege Escalation Exploited High 7.8
• CVE-2011-1268 Code injection in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2011-1868 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0

All Microsoft Windows 2003 Server vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-8v24-2h5p-j7gx.