CVE-2003-1041
Internet Explorer 5.x and 6.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary programs via a modified directory traversal attack using a URL…
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
Internet Explorer 5.x and 6.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary programs via a modified directory traversal attack using a URL containing ".." (dot dot) sequences and a filename that ends in "::" which is treated as a .chm file even if it does not have a .chm extension. NOTE: this bug may overlap CVE-2004-0475.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 7 days later
· 7 days later
Published
- 20 years later
· 20 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 | High7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 52.6% · top 1.0% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (10)
- TA04-196A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1186 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 9320 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- MS04-023 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1943 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- VU#187196 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:956 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:3514 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- ie-showhelp-directory-traversal(14105) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 20031230 IE 5.x-6.0 allows executing arbitrary programs using showHelp() (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_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)
- 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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