Microsoft Internet Explorer up to 6 privileges management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Microsoft Internet Explorer up to 6. It has been classified as critical. Affected is an unknown function. Performing a manipulation results in privileges management. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2004-0841. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. Furthermore, an exploit is available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Microsoft Internet Explorer up to 6 (Web Browser). It has been classified as problematic. This affects an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. This is going to have an impact on integrity. The summary by CVE is:

Internet Explorer 6.x allows remote attackers to install arbitrary programs via mousedown events that call the Popup.show method and use drag-and-drop actions in a popup window, aka "HijackClick 3" and the "Script in Image Tag File Download Vulnerability."

The weakness was published 09/11/2003 by Liu Die Yu with greyhats as not defined posting (Bugtraq). The advisory is shared at securityfocus.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2004-0841. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.

After 11 months, there has been an exploit disclosed. The exploit is shared for download at safecenter.net. It is declared as proof-of-concept. We expect the 0-day to have been worth approximately $25k-$100k. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 100018 (Microsoft Internet Explorer Multiple Vulnerabilities (MS04-038)).

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at windowsupdate.microsoft.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version. Furthermore it is possible to detect and prevent this kind of attack with TippingPoint and the filter 2886.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (17651), Exploit-DB (24266), SecurityFocus (BID 10690†), OSVDB (7774†) and Secunia (SA9711†). Further details are available at kryptocrew.de. Similar entries are available at VDB-280, VDB-281, VDB-282 and VDB-283. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Class: Privileges management
CWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
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OpenVAS ID: 10861
OpenVAS Name: IE 5.01 5.5 6.0 Cumulative patch (890923)
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Patch: windowsupdate.microsoft.com
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09/12/2003 +1 days 🔍
07/11/2004 +303 days 🔍
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12/23/2004 +71 days 🔍
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: microsoft.com

Advisory: securityfocus.com⛔
Researcher: Liu Die Yu
Organization: greyhats
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2004-0841 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2004-0841
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-285

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X-Force: 17651
SecurityFocus: 10690 - Microsoft Internet Explorer Popup.show Mouse Event Hijacking Vulnerability
Secunia: 9711 - Microsoft Internet Explorer Multiple Vulnerabilities, Extremely Critical
OSVDB: 7774 - Microsoft IE Popup.show() Click Hijack (HijackClick 3)
SecurityTracker: 1010679
Vulnerability Center: 5554 - [MS04-040] XSS on Microsoft Internet Explorer Allows Complete Control of The Affected Sys, Critical

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Entryinfo

Created: 09/12/2003 11:45
Updated: 09/16/2025 14:33
Changes: 09/12/2003 11:45 (62), 04/07/2017 12:00 (32), 03/08/2021 17:37 (2), 03/08/2021 17:41 (2), 01/02/2025 18:40 (18), 09/16/2025 14:33 (1)
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Cache ID: 216:97A:103

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