CVE-2010-0917
Stack-based buffer overflow in VBScript in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 and SP3, and Server 2003 SP2, when Internet Explorer is used, might allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long string in the fourth argument (aka helpfile argument) to the MsgBox function, leading to code execution when the F1 key is pressed, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-0483.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.6 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 24.7% (98th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2010-0942)
- Published
- March 3, 2010
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2010-0942 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- microsoft / internet explorer
- microsoft / internet explorer
- microsoft / internet explorer
- microsoft / windows 2000
- microsoft / windows 2003 server
- microsoft / windows 2003 server
- microsoft / windows server 2003
- microsoft / windows xp
- microsoft / windows xp
- microsoft / windows xp
References
- http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2010/03/01/security-advisory-981169-released.aspx(Vendor Advisory)
- http://isec.pl/vulnerabilities/isec-0027-msgbox-helpfile-ie.txt(Exploit)
- http://isec.pl/vulnerabilities10.html(Exploit)
- http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/981169.mspx(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38473(Exploit)
- http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/01/ie_code_execution_bug/
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/56560
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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