CVE-2007-5095 (GCVE-0-2007-5095)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-09-26 22:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 15:17
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
mitre CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 28/100 over 2263 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/479855/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/479854/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/backdooring-window… x_refsource_MISC
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/479856/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/479825/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://osvdb.org/41093 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
Date Public
2007-09-18 00:00
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