CVE-2010-0917: Microsoft Windows 2000

High severity, CVSS 7.6. EPSS: 24.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Stack-based buffer overflow in VBScript in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 and SP3, and Server 2003 SP2, when Internet Explorer is used, might allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long string in the fourth argument (aka helpfile argument) to the MsgBox function, leading to code execution when the F1 key is pressed, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-0483.

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows 2000: any version
• Microsoft Windows 2003 Server: any version
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003: any version
• Microsoft Windows XP: any version; affected versions not specified

Published 2010-03-03. Last modified 2026-06-16.