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CVE-2003-0228

N/A

Description

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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A

Published5/27/2003

Last Modified4/16/2026

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

microsoft:windows_media_player

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=105232913516488&w=2(cve@mitre.org)

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=105240528419389&w=2(cve@mitre.org)

http://marc.info/?l=ntbugtraq&m=105233960728901&w=2(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/384932(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7517(cve@mitre.org)

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2003/ms03-017(cve@mitre.org)

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/11953(cve@mitre.org)

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A321(cve@mitre.org)

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=105232913516488&w=2(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=105240528419389&w=2(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://marc.info/?l=ntbugtraq&m=105233960728901&w=2(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/384932(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7517(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2003/ms03-017(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/11953(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A321(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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