5.1 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
6.9 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
Low
0.477 Medium
EPSS
Percentile
97.5%
The showHelp function in Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP Pro allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary local .CHM files via a double backward slash (“\”) before the target CHM file, as demonstrated using an “ms-its” URL to ntshared.chm. NOTE: this bug may overlap CVE-2003-1041.