CVE-2003-0838

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Oct 7, 2003
Updated
Aug 8, 2024
Reserved
Oct 2, 2003

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Description

Internet Explorer allows remote attackers to bypass zone restrictions to inject and execute arbitrary programs by creating a popup window and inserting ActiveX object code with a "data" tag pointing to the malicious code, which Internet Explorer treats as HTML or Javascript, but later executes as an HTA application, a different vulnerability than CVE-2003-0532, and as exploited using the QHosts Trojan horse (aka Trojan.Qhosts, QHosts-1, VBS.QHOSTS, or aolfix.exe).

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

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