THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2007-3037
MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2007-3037

Windows Media Player vulnerability

CVSS
4.0
EPSS
21.8%
EPSS pct
97th
Exploited
No known
Microsoft Windows Media Player 7.1, 9, 10, and 11 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a skin file (WMZ or WMD) with crafted header information that causes a size mismatch between compressed and decompressed data and triggers a heap-based buffer overflow, aka "Windows Media Player Code Execution Vulnerability Parsing Skins."
Affected vendor
Microsoft
Affected product
Windows Media Player
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-94 — Code Injection
  • CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within Memory Bounds
Published
2007-08-14

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, high attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity.

Its EPSS score of 21.8% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 97% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2007-3037

  • Confirm whether Microsoft Windows Media Player is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2007-3037.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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