CVE-2004-1043 Code injection in n/a

What is CVE-2004-1043?

CVE-2004-1043 is a medium-severity code injection vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer, published on 31 Dec 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

Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP SP2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by using the "Related Topics" command in the Help ActiveX Control (hhctrl.ocx) to open a Help popup window containing the PCHealth tools.htm file in the local zone and injecting Javascript to be executed, as demonstrated using "writehta.txt" and the ADODB recordset, which saves a .HTA file to the local system, aka the "HTML Help ActiveX control Cross Domain Vulnerability."

Which versions are affected by CVE-2004-1043?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Windows Xp.

How do I fix CVE-2004-1043?

No fix has been published for CVE-2004-1043 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-2004-1043 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2004-1043 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-f6q2-pg79-66p3.