CVE-2004-0199: Microsoft Windows 2003 Server

Medium severity, CVSS 5.1. EPSS: 26.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Help and Support Center in Microsoft Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 SP1 does not properly validate HCP URLs, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code, as demonstrated using certain hcp:// URLs that access the DVD Upgrade capability (dvdupgrd.htm).

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows 2003 Server: version enterprise only; version enterprise_64-bit only; version r2 only; version standard only; version web only
• Microsoft Windows XP: any version

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