CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS
Percentile
99.7%
A remotely exploitable vulnerability has been discovered in Internet Explorer. Exploitation of this vulnerability may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
A remotely exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability has been discovered in Internet Explorer versions 5.1, 5.5 and 6.0. The <object> tag contains a “type” field used to determine how Internet Explorer should treat an object. It is possible to bypass the buffer checks on the input to the “type” field by using a specific character and cause a buffer overflow.
An attacker could create an HTML file that includes a malicious <OBJECT> tag to execute arbitrary code on the victim’s machine. When a victim using a vulnerable version of IE, or other applications that use IE as their HTML interpreter, visits the malicious file (via web page, email message, file sharing, etc.), the attacker-supplied code will be executed.
Exploitation of this vulnerability may lead to the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the current user.
Microsoft has released MS03-020 to resolve this issue.
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Updated: June 04, 2003
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The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.
Please see <http://www.microsoft.com/security/security_bulletins/ms03-020.asp>.
If you have feedback, comments, or additional information about this vulnerability, please send us [email](<mailto:[email protected]?Subject=VU%23679556 Feedback>).
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Thanks to Microsoft Security and eEye Digital Security for reporting this vulnerability.
This document was written by Jason A Rafail.
CVE IDs: | CVE-2003-0344 |
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Severity Metric: | 17.47 Date Public: |