CVE-2005-2117: Microsoft Windows 2000

Medium severity, CVSS 5.1. EPSS: 37.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Web View in Windows Explorer on Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP1 and SP2, and Server 2003 does not properly handle certain HTML characters in preview fields, which allows remote user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code.

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows 2000: any version
• Microsoft Windows 2003 Server: version r2 only
• Microsoft Windows Explorer: any version
• Microsoft Windows XP: any version

Published 2005-10-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.