CVE-2003-0604: Microsoft Windows Media Player

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 13% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Windows Media Player (WMP) 7 and 8, as running on Internet Explorer and possibly other Microsoft products that process HTML, allows remote attackers to bypass zone restrictions and access or execute arbitrary files via an IFRAME tag pointing to an ASF file whose Content-location contains a File:// URL.

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows Media Player: version 7 only; version 8 only

Published 2003-08-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.