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CVE-2002-1847

Buffer overflow in mplay32.exe of Microsoft Windows Media Player (WMP) 6.3 through 7.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long mp3 filename command line argument. NOTE: since the only known attack vector requires command line access, this may not be a vulnerability.

Published: Dec 31, 2002 Modified: Jun 16, 2026

CVSS Metrics

Affected Products (5)

Vendor Product Version
microsoft windows_media_player -
microsoft windows_media_player 6.3
microsoft windows_media_player 6.4
microsoft windows_media_player 7
microsoft windows_media_player 7.1

GitHub Security Advisory GHSA-hph4-73fg-9q9f

Buffer overflow in mplay32.exe of Microsoft Windows Media Player (WMP) 6.3 through 7.1 allows...

Risk Scores

CVSS Score 7.5 / 10
EPSS Score 33.61%

Top 2% most likely to be exploited

Threat Score 40.1 / 100

Data Sources

NVD EPSS GitHub