CVE-2005-0954: Microsoft Internet Explorer

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 14.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Windows Explorer and Internet Explorer in Windows 2000 SP1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a malformed Windows Metafile (WMF) file.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 6.0.2900 only
• Microsoft Windows Explorer: any version
• Microsoft Windows XP: any version

Published 2005-05-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.