CVE-2003-0838
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).
- EPSS
- 38% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 98% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- microsoft:ie
- microsoft:internet_explorer
References
- http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2003-September/009639.html
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106304733121753&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106304876523459&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=ntbugtraq&m=106302799428500&w=2
- http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/trojan.qhosts.html