{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 2 products.","exploited":"It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2004-1043 exists.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2004-1043 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"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."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2004-1043 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: 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.\nExploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2004-1043 exists.\n\nAffected product: Microsoft Internet Explorer. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2004-1043/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2004-1043/index.md)","id":"CVE-2004-1043","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2004-1043/index.md","name":"CVE-2004-1043","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-f6q2-pg79-66p3"],"analysis":{"component_type":"browser","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["code_execution"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Internet Explorer","requires_auth":"none","summary":"Remote attackers can execute arbitrary code by exploiting a cross-domain vulnerability in the Internet Explorer HTML Help ActiveX control.","user_interaction":"required","vuln_class":"code_injection"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"mitre","cpe":[{"product":"internet_explorer","vendor":"microsoft"},{"product":"windows_xp","vendor":"microsoft"}],"cvss":{"score":5,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N","version":"2.0"},"cwes":[],"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.\"","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":1,"first_seen":"2004-12-25","github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[{"date":"2004-12-25","kind":"exploitdb","ref":"719","stars":null,"title":"Microsoft Internet Explorer (Windows XP SP2) - HTML Help Control Local Zone Bypass"}],"tier":"weaponised"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"Code injection in n/a","id":"CVE-2004-1043","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"microsoft:internet_explorer","products":["microsoft:internet_explorer","microsoft:windows_xp"],"type":"code_injection","year":"2004"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":9,"next":{"headline":"Integer overflow in n/a","id":"CVE-2004-1049"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Denial of service in n/a","id":"CVE-2004-1039"},"products":["n/a"],"published":"2004-12-31","related":[{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Microsoft Internet Explorer Memory Corruption","id":"CVE-2014-1776","kev_date_added":"2022-01-28","published":"2014-04-27"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Microsoft Internet Explorer Remote Code Execution","id":"CVE-2021-27085","kev_date_added":"2021-11-03","published":"2021-03-11"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Microsoft Internet Explorer Remote Code Execution","id":"CVE-2017-0222","kev_date_added":"2022-02-25","published":"2017-05-12"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Microsoft Internet Explorer Privilege Escalation","id":"CVE-2017-0210","kev_date_added":"2022-05-24","published":"2017-04-12"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Microsoft Internet Explorer Memory Corruption","id":"CVE-2017-0149","kev_date_added":"2022-05-24","published":"2017-03-17"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Microsoft Internet Explorer Memory Corruption","id":"CVE-2015-2502","kev_date_added":"2022-04-13","published":"2015-08-19"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Microsoft Internet Explorer Memory Corruption","id":"CVE-2015-2419","kev_date_added":"2022-03-28","published":"2015-07-14"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"GPL-2.0-or-later","name":"Exploit-DB"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-08","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"Remote attackers can execute arbitrary code by exploiting a cross-domain vulnerability in the Internet Explorer HTML Help ActiveX control.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2004-1043/"}