CVE-2004-0213 Privilege escalation in n/a

What is CVE-2004-0213?

CVE-2004-0213 is a high-severity vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 2000, published on 14 Jul 2004. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Utility Manager in Windows 2000 launches winhlp32.exe while Utility Manager is running with raised privileges, which allows local users to gain system privileges via a "Shatter" style attack that sends a Windows message to cause Utility Manager to launch winhlp32 by directly accessing the context sensitive help and bypassing the GUI, then sending another message to winhlp32 in order to open a user-selected file, a different vulnerability than CVE-2003-0908.

Weakness: CWE-306

Which versions are affected by CVE-2004-0213?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Microsoft Windows 2000.

How do I fix CVE-2004-0213?

No fix has been published for CVE-2004-0213 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2004-0213 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2004-0213 exists.

Public exploit code: 4 Exploit-DB entries.

Other vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows 2000

• CVE-2008-4250 Microsoft Windows Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2010-0232 Microsoft Windows Kernel Exception Handler Exploited High 7.8
• CVE-2009-1123 Microsoft Windows Improper Input Validation Exploited High 7.8
• CVE-2002-0367 Microsoft Windows Privilege Escalation Exploited High 7.8
• CVE-2010-0269 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0

All Microsoft Windows 2000 vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-62vf-wrg7-5x68.