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CVE-2003-0228
Directory traversal vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Media Player 7.1 and Windows Media Player for Windows XP allows remote attackers to…
High7.5EPSS 46.3%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 8 days later
· 8 days later
Published
- 21 years later
· 21 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 46.3% · top 1.2% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (8)
- 20030507 Windows Media Player directory traversal vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 7517 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 20030507 Windows Media Player directory traversal vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_NTBUGTRAQx_transferred
- mediaplayer-skin-code-execution(11953) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:321 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- VU#384932 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- 20030508 why i love xs4all + mediaplayer thingie (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- MS03-017 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2003-0228)Record last updated .