6.5 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
Low
7.5 High
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access 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
0.104 Low
EPSS
Percentile
94.9%
There is a vulnerability in Authenticode that, under certain low memory
conditions, could allow an ActiveX control to download and install without presenting the user with an approval dialog.
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2003 Jeff Adams
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.11886");
script_version("2023-08-01T13:29:10+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2023-08-01 13:29:10 +0000 (Tue, 01 Aug 2023)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2005-11-03 14:08:04 +0100 (Thu, 03 Nov 2005)");
script_xref(name:"IAVA", value:"2003-B-0006");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"7.5");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_cve_id("CVE-2003-0660");
script_name("Vulnerability in Authenticode Verification Could Allow Remote Code Execution (823182)");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2003 Jeff Adams");
script_family("Windows : Microsoft Bulletins");
script_dependencies("secpod_reg_enum.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("SMB/registry_enumerated");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"There is a vulnerability in Authenticode that, under certain low memory
conditions, could allow an ActiveX control to download and install without presenting the user with an approval dialog.");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Exploiting the vulnerability would grant the attacker with the same privileges
as the user.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker could host a malicious Web Site designed
to exploit this vulnerability. If an attacker then persuaded a user to visit that site an ActiveX control could be
installed and executed on the user's system. Alternatively, an attacker could create a specially formed HTML e-mail and
send it to the user.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"The vendor has released updates. Please see the references for more information.");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2003/ms03-041");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8830");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"registry");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
exit(0);
}
include("secpod_reg.inc");
if ( hotfix_check_sp(win2k:5, xp:2, win2003:1) <= 0 ) exit(0);
if ( hotfix_missing(name:"KB823182") > 0 )
security_message(port:0);