CVE-1999-0975

The CVE-1999-0975 entry describes a local privilege escalation in the Windows Help system: by editing a table of contents metafile (.CNT) and altering the topic action, a local user could cause commands to execute when the .hlp file is opened. The remediation/affected product details beyond this ...

CVE-1999-0975

The Windows help system can allow a local user to execute commands as another user by editing a table of contents metafile with a .CNT extension and modifying the topic action to include the commands to be executed when the .hlp file is accessed...