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Tracker / CVE-1999-0975

CVE-1999-0975

Medium 4.6

The Windows help system can allow a local user to execute commands as another user by editing a table of contents metafile with a .CNT extension and modifying the topic action to include the commands to be executed when the .hlp file is accessed.

Affected products and versions

microsoft windows_95
microsoft windows_98
microsoft windows_nt

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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