CVE-2007-1765
Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4 through Vista allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial…
- 9.3HighCVSS base score
- 54.9%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 1.0% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 12Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4 through Vista allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (persistent reboot) via a malformed ANI file, which results in memory corruption when processing cursors, animated cursors, and icons, a similar issue to CVE-2005-0416, as originally demonstrated using Internet Explorer 6 and 7. NOTE: this issue might be a duplicate of CVE-2007-0038; if so, then use CVE-2007-0038 instead of this identifier.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module and 11 Exploit-DB entries for it.
Show the exploits12
Metasploit modules1 module
- Windows ANI LoadAniIcon() Chunk Size Stack Buffer Overflow (SMTP) (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/windows/email/ms07_017_ani_loadimage_chunksizeRank greatdisclosed 28 Mar 2007
Exploit-DB11 entries
- Microsoft Windows - ANI LoadAniIcon() Chunk Size Stack Buffer Overflow (SMTP) (MS07-017) (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 16698remote, windowspublished 20 Sept 2010Verified
- Microsoft Windows - Animated Cursor Stack Overflow (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 4045remote, windowspublished 7 Jun 2007Verified
- Microsoft Windows - Animated Cursor '.ani' Local Overflow (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 3695local, windowspublished 9 Apr 2007Verified
- Microsoft Windows Explorer - '.ANI' File Denial of Service (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 3684dos, windowspublished 8 Apr 2007Verified
- Microsoft Windows - Animated Cursor '.ani' Universal Generator (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 3651remote, windowspublished 3 Apr 2007Verified
- Microsoft Windows - Animated Cursor '.ani' Local Overflow (Hardware DEP) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 3652local, windowspublished 3 Apr 2007Verified
- Microsoft Windows - Animated Cursor '.ani' Local Buffer Overflow (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 3647local, windowspublished 2 Apr 2007Verified
- Microsoft Windows XP/Vista - Animated Cursor '.ani' Remote Overflow (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 3634remote, windowspublished 1 Apr 2007Verified
- Microsoft Windows XP - Animated Cursor '.ani' Remote Overflow (2) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 3635remote, windowspublished 1 Apr 2007Verified
- Microsoft Windows - Animated Cursor '.ani' Remote (eeye patch Bypass) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 3636remote, windowspublished 1 Apr 2007Verified
- Microsoft Windows - Animated Cursor '.ani' Local Stack Overflow (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 3617local, windowspublished 31 Mar 2007Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
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Published
- 17 years later
· 17 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 | High9.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 54.9% · top 1.0% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 9.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
11
- 20070330 ANI Zeroday, Third Party Patch (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://research.eeye.com/html/alerts/zeroday/20070328.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 20070331 Windows .ANI Stack Overflow Exploit (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- ADV-2007-1151 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_141860.htm (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://www.avertlabs.com/research/blog/?p=230 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 23194 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/935423.mspx (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1017827 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- http://www.avertlabs.com/research/blog/?p=233 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://asert.arbornetworks.com/2007/03/any-ani-file-could-infect-you/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_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)
- EUVD EUVD-2007-1759 (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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