CVE-2010-1042

Windows Media Player vulnerability

CVSS

4.3

EPSS

10.3%

EPSS pct

95th

Exploited

No known

Microsoft Windows Media Player 11 does not properly perform colorspace conversion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted .AVI file. NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information.

Affected vendor

Microsoft

Affected product

Windows Media Player

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Published

2010-03-23

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 10.3% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 95% of all scored CVEs.

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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-2010-1042.
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