National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2004-0213
Original release date:08/06/2004
Last revised:09/10/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
3.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides administrator access, Allows complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA04-196A
Name: TA04-196A
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#868580
Name: VU#868580
External Source: MS
Name: MS04-019
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20040713 Microsoft Window Utility Manager Local Elevation of Privileges
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: XF
Name: win-utilitymanager-gain-privileges(16592)
Type: Advisory
US Government Resource: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:2495
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:2495
Type: Tool Signature