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CVE-2003-0662
Buffer overflow in Troubleshooter ActiveX Control (Tshoot.ocx) in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4 and earlier allows remote attackers to…
High9.3EPSS 38.0%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
Buffer overflow in Troubleshooter ActiveX Control (Tshoot.ocx) in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an HTML document with a long argument to the RunQuery2 method.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 2 months later
· 2 months later
Published
- 21 years later
· 21 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High9.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 38.0% · top 1.4% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 9.3.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (9)
- CA-2003-27 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- 20031016 Microsoft Local Troubleshooter ActiveX control buffer overflow (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_NTBUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20031016 Microsoft Local Troubleshooter ActiveX control buffer overflow (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_VULNWATCHx_transferred
- MS03-042 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:237 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- win2k-local-troubleshooter-bo(13423) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 20031016 Microsoft Local Troubleshooter ActiveX control buffer overflow (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- 8833 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- VU#989932 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2003-0656 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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