CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-1999-0975

Published: Dec 10, 1999 | Modified: Sep 09, 2008
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
4.6 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

The Windows help system can allow a local user to execute commands as another user by editing a table of contents metafile with a .CNT extension and modifying the topic action to include the commands to be executed when the .hlp file is accessed.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Windows_95 Microsoft * *
Windows_98 Microsoft * *
Windows_nt Microsoft 4.0 (including) 4.0 (including)

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