Stack-based buffer overflow in Microsoft Help Workshop 4.03.0002 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a…

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in Microsoft Help Workshop 4.03.0002 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted .cnt file composed of lines that begin with an integer followed by a space and a long string.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

36.8% · top 1.5% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 9.3.

Weakness

• n/a

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (9)

• 20070117 Microsoft Help Workshop .CNT contents files buffer overflow vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• ms-help-workshop-cnt-bo(31555) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• 1017530 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• 22100 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• 2156 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
• 3149 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
• 23862 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 31898 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
• http://www.anspi.pl/~porkythepig/visualization/cnt-expl1.cpp (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 12:12 UTC.