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CVE-2004-1173

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 11.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2004-12-15 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Internet Explorer 6 allows remote attackers to bypass the popup blocker via the document object model (DOM) methods in the DHTML Dynamic HTML (DHTML) Editing Component (DEC) and Javascript that calls showModalDialog.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: 6.0

References

• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110271114525795&w=2
• http://marc.info/?l=ntbugtraq&m=110271016129952&w=2
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18444
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110271114525795&w=2
• http://marc.info/?l=ntbugtraq&m=110271016129952&w=2
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18444

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