CVE-2004-0985: Microsoft Ie

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 20.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Internet Explorer 6.x on Windows XP SP2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code, as demonstrated using a document with a draggable file type such as .xml, .doc, .py, .cdf, .css, .pdf, or .ppt, and using ADODB.Connection and ADODB.recordset to write to a .hta file that is interpreted in the Local Zone by HTML Help.

Affected products

Published 2004-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.