CVE-2005-1191: Microsoft Windows 2000

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 17.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Web View DLL (webvw.dll), as used in Windows Explorer on Windows 2000 systems, does not properly filter an apostrophe ("'") in the author name in a document, which allows attackers to execute arbitrary script via extra attributes when Web View constructs a mailto: link for the preview pane when the user selects the file.

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows 2000: any version
• Microsoft Windows 98: any version
• Microsoft Windows 98se: any version
• Microsoft Windows Me: any version

Published 2005-05-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.