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Fencer Vulns
critical 10.0

CVE-2004-0212 in the critical feed json

Stack-based buffer overflow in the Task Scheduler for Windows 2000 and XP, and Internet Explorer 6 on Windows NT 4.0, allows local or remot…

published 2004-07-14 22 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2004-0212

cvss
10.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
63.5%
EPSS 63.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.2%
public exploits
2
Exploit-DB

Summary

Stack-based buffer overflow in the Task Scheduler for Windows 2000 and XP, and Internet Explorer 6 on Windows NT 4.0, allows local or remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a .job file containing long parameters, as demonstrated using Internet Explorer and accessing a .job file on an anonymous share.

Patch / fix

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. First public exploit (EDB-353)

Exploit prediction

63.50% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.2% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-368 Microsoft Windows XP - Task Scheduler '.job' Universal (MS04-022) local, 2004-07-31
  • EDB-353 Microsoft Windows Task Scheduler (XP/2000) - '.job' (MS04-022) local, 2004-07-18

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 10.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.