CVE-2003-1041: Microsoft Ie

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 52.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Internet Explorer 5.x and 6.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary programs via a modified directory traversal attack using a URL containing ".." (dot dot) sequences and a filename that ends in "::" which is treated as a .chm file even if it does not have a .chm extension. NOTE: this bug may overlap CVE-2004-0475.

Affected products

• Microsoft Ie: version 6 only; version 6.0 only
• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 5 only; version 5.5 only; version 6.0 only

Published 2004-06-14. Last modified 2026-06-16.