CVE-2004-0213
Utility Manager in Windows 2000 launches winhlp32.exe while Utility Manager is running with raised privileges, which allows local users to…
- 7.8HighCVSS base score
- 20.1%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 2.5% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 4Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Utility Manager in Windows 2000 launches winhlp32.exe while Utility Manager is running with raised privileges, which allows local users to gain system privileges via a "Shatter" style attack that sends a Windows message to cause Utility Manager to launch winhlp32 by directly accessing the context sensitive help and bypassing the GUI, then sending another message to winhlp32 in order to open a user-selected file, a different vulnerability than CVE-2003-0908.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list 4 Exploit-DB entries for it.
Show the exploits4
Exploit-DB4 entries
- Microsoft Windows Server 2000 - Utility Manager All-in-One (MS04-019) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 355local, windowspublished 20 Jul 2004Verified
- Microsoft Windows Server 2000 - POSIX Subsystem Privilege Escalation (MS04-020) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 351local, windowspublished 17 Jul 2004Verified
- Microsoft Windows Server 2000 - Universal Language Utility Manager (MS04-019) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 352local, windowspublished 17 Jul 2004Verified
- Microsoft Windows Server 2000 - Utility Manager Privilege Escalation (MS04-019) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 350local, windowspublished 14 Jul 2004Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 4 months later
· 4 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 | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 20.1% · top 2.5% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
6
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:2495 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- TA04-196A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- VU#868580 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- win-utilitymanager-gain-privileges(16592) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 20040713 Microsoft Window Utility Manager Local Elevation of Privileges (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- MS04-019 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_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-2004-0213 (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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