CVE-2007-3037: Microsoft Windows Media Player

Medium severity, CVSS 4.0. EPSS: 21.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Microsoft Windows Media Player 7.1, 9, 10, and 11 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a skin file (WMZ or WMD) with crafted header information that causes a size mismatch between compressed and decompressed data and triggers a heap-based buffer overflow, aka "Windows Media Player Code Execution Vulnerability Parsing Skins."

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows Media Player: version 7.1 only; version 9 only; version 10 only; version 11 only

Published 2007-08-14. Last modified 2026-06-16.