CVE-2001-0243: Microsoft Windows Media Player

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 17.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Windows Media Player 7 and earlier stores Internet shortcuts in a user's Temporary Files folder with a fixed filename instead of in the Internet Explorer cache, which causes the HTML in those shortcuts to run in the Local Computer Zone instead of the Internet Zone, which allows remote attackers to read certain files.

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows Media Player: version 6.4 only; version 7 only

Published 2001-06-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.