CVEvulnerability
CVE-2007-5095
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2007-09-26
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
Microsoft Windows Media Player (WMP) 9 on Windows XP SP2 invokes Internet Explorer to render HTML documents contained inside some media files, regardless of what default web browser is configured, which might allow remote attackers to exploit vulnerabilities in software that the user does not expect to run, as demonstrated by the HTMLView parameter in an .asx file.
Affected configurations
• microsoft windows media player 9
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://osvdb.org/41093 osvdb.org
- http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/backdooring-windows-media-files www.gnucitizen.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/479825/100/100/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/479854/100/100/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/479855/100/100/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/479856/100/100/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://osvdb.org/41093 osvdb.org
- http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/backdooring-windows-media-files www.gnucitizen.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/479825/100/100/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/479854/100/100/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/479855/100/100/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/479856/100/100/threaded www.securityfocus.com