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CVE-2007-1946
Integer overflow in Windows Explorer in Microsoft Windows XP SP1 might allow user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service…
- 10.0HighCVSS base score
- 26.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 2.0% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Integer overflow in Windows Explorer in Microsoft Windows XP SP1 might allow user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a large width dimension in a crafted BMP image, as demonstrated by w4intof.bmp.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 1 day later
· 1 day later
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 | High10.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 26.2% · top 2.0% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 10.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
5
- 23321 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://ifsec.blogspot.com/2007/04/several-windows-image-viewers.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 20070404 Several Windows image viewers vulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 41553 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 2558 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_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-2007-1940 (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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