CVE-2004-0213

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 20.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2004-07-14 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-306

Description

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.

Affected products

Microsoft Windows 2000: all versions

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
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A2495
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
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A2495

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