CVE-2007-3037
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.0EPSS 21.8%EU EUVD
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."
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-94
- EPSS score
- 21.8% (98th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2007-3029)
- Published
- August 14, 2007
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2007-3029 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- microsoft / windows media player
- microsoft / windows media player
- microsoft / windows media player
- microsoft / windows media player
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26433(Vendor Advisory)
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1018565
- http://www.osvdb.org/36385
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/476533/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25307
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-226A.html(US Government Resource)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2871(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-07-046.html
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2007/ms07-047
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A2207
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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