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CVE-2004-0199
Help and Support Center in Microsoft Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 SP1 does not properly validate HCP URLs, which allows remote…
Medium5.1EPSS 26.1%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
Help and Support Center in Microsoft Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 SP1 does not properly validate HCP URLs, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code, as demonstrated using certain hcp:// URLs that access the DVD Upgrade capability (dvdupgrd.htm).
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 2 months later
· 2 months 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 | Medium5.1 | AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 26.1% · top 2.0% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.1.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (9)
- MS04-015 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred
- 20040512 MS04-015 - Windows Help Center - Dvdupgrade (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- win-hcp-code-execution(16095) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 10321 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1008 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1032 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- http://www.exploitlabs.com/files/advisories/EXPL-A-2004-001-helpctr.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 20040512 MS04-015 - Windows Help Center - Dvdupgrade (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- VU#484814 (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)
- 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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