CVE-2004-1173: Microsoft Internet Explorer

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 11.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Internet Explorer 6 allows remote attackers to bypass the popup blocker via the document object model (DOM) methods in the DHTML Dynamic HTML (DHTML) Editing Component (DEC) and Javascript that calls showModalDialog.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 6.0 only

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