CVE-2004-0475: Microsoft Ie

Medium severity, CVSS 5.1. EPSS: 10% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The showHelp function in Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP Pro allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary local .CHM files via a double backward slash ("\\") before the target CHM file, as demonstrated using an "ms-its" URL to ntshared.chm. NOTE: this bug may overlap CVE-2003-1041.

Affected products

• Microsoft Ie: version 6.0 only

Published 2004-07-07. Last modified 2026-06-16.