CVE-2004-0213

7.8 highEPSS 20%

High (7.8) in microsoft windows 2000. EPSS 20% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Utility Manager in Windows 2000 launches winhlp32.exe while Utility Manager is running with raised privileges, which allows local users to gain system privileges via a "Shatter" style attack that sends a Windows message to cause Utility Manager to launch winhlp32 by directly accessing the context sensitive help and bypassing the GUI, then sending another message to winhlp32 in order to open a user-selected file, a different vulnerability than CVE-2003-0908.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.8 high

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 20% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 97% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-306
Published: 2004-08-06
Modified: 2026-06-16
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

microsoft:windows_2000

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108975382413405&w=2
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/868580
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA04-196A.html
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2004/ms04-019
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16592

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