Is CVE-2006-6601 being actively exploited?

CVE-2006-6601 is not currently listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog.

What is the CVSS score for CVE-2006-6601?

CVE-2006-6601 has a CVSS 2.0 base score of 4.3 (MEDIUM).

CVE-2006-6601

MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3EPSS 18.1%EU EUVD

Windows Media Player 10.00.00.4036 in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a .MID (MIDI) file with a malformed header chunk without any track chunks, possibly involving (1) number of tracks of (2) time division fields that are set to 0.

Key facts

CVSS score: 4.3 (v2.0)
Severity: MEDIUM
CVSS vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weakness (CWE): CWE-399
EPSS score: 18.1% (97th percentile)
In CISA KEV: No
In EU EUVD: Yes (EUVD-2006-6584)
Published: December 15, 2006
NVD last modified: June 16, 2026
Status: Modified

EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)

This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2006-6584 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.

View on the EU Vulnerability Database

Affected products

microsoft / windows xp
windows / media player

References

Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS

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