CVE-2010-0917
Stack-based buffer overflow in VBScript in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 and SP3, and Server 2003 SP2, when Internet Explorer is…
- 7.6HighCVSS base score
- 24.7%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 2.1% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Stack-based buffer overflow in VBScript in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 and SP3, and Server 2003 SP2, when Internet Explorer is used, might allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long string in the fourth argument (aka helpfile argument) to the MsgBox function, leading to code execution when the F1 key is pressed, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-0483.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 14 years later
· 14 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 | High7.6 | AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 24.7% · top 2.1% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.6.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References7
- http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/981169.mspx (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/01/ie_code_execution_bug/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://isec.pl/vulnerabilities/isec-0027-msgbox-helpfile-ie.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://isec.pl/vulnerabilities10.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 38473 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2010/03/01/security-advisory-981169-released.aspx (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- ms-win-winhlp32-bo(56560) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_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-2010-0942 (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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