Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Media Player
CVE-2003-0228
Directory traversal vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Media Player 7.1 and Windows Media Player for Windows XP allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a skins file with a URL containing hex-encoded backslash characters (%5C) that causes an executable to be placed in an arbitrary location.
EPSS: 0.463 (98.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Microsoft Windows_media_player — versions 7.1
- N/a — versions n/a
References
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
- cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Patch, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, Vendor Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_NTBUGTRAQ)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_OVAL, signature, vdb-entry)
- cve@mitre.org (US Government Resource, x_refsource_CERT-VN, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MS, vendor-advisory)