Vulnerability Report

CVE-2004-0839

RCE

Title: Microsoft Internet Explorer arbitrary program installation

RCE

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2004-0839.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Aug 18, 2004

Modified Date Apr 03, 2025

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

45.91%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2004-0839: Internet Explorer in Windows XP SP2, and other versions including 5.01 and 5.5, allows remote attackers to install arbitrary programs via a web page that uses certain styles and the AnchorClick behavior, popup windows, and drag-and-drop capabilities to drop the program in the local startup folder, as demonstrated by "wottapoop.html".

Impacted Vendors

microsoft 2

avaya 4

nortel 5

Reference Links

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109303291513335&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109336221826652&w=2 http://seclists.org/lists/fulldisclosure/2004/Aug/0868.html http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/526089 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10973 http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA04-293A.html https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2004/ms04-038 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17044 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1563 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A2073 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A3773 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A4152 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6272 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7721 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109303291513335&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109336221826652&w=2 http://seclists.org/lists/fulldisclosure/2004/Aug/0868.html http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/526089 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10973 http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA04-293A.html https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2004/ms04-038 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17044 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1563 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A2073 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A3773 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A4152 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6272 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7721

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2004-0839 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

August 18, 2004 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.