Microsoft Windows Media Player 7 WMP ActiveX Control privileges management
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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Microsoft Windows Media Player 7 (Operating System). Affected by this issue is an unknown code of the component WMP ActiveX Control. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:
The WMP ActiveX Control in Windows Media Player 7 allows remote attackers to execute commands in Internet Explorer via javascript URLs, a variant of the "Frame Domain Verification" vulnerability.
The bug was discovered 01/01/2001. The weakness was released 06/02/2001 by Georgi Guninski as MS01-015 as confirmed bulletin (Technet). The advisory is available at microsoft.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2001-0148. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.
The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 152 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $25k-$100k.
Applying the patch MS01-015 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at microsoft.com.
The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (6227). Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at 16707, 16708 and 17048.
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Class: Privileges managementCWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
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Patch: MS01-015
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Timeline
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Sources
Vendor: microsoft.comAdvisory: MS01-015
Researcher: Georgi Guninski
Status: Confirmed
CVE: CVE-2001-0148 (🔍)
X-Force: 6227 - Microsoft Windows Media Player allows remote attackers to execute commands in Internet Explorer
Vulnerability Center: 7897 - [MS01-015] Microsoft Windows Media Player 7.0 Allows Executing JavaScript URLs via WMP ActiveX Contr, Medium
SecurityFocus: 2167 - Microsoft Windows Media Player Javascript URL Vulnerability
OSVDB: 7178 - Microsoft Windows Media Player allows remote attackers to execute commands in Internet Explorer
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Entry
Created: 07/04/2014 11:23Updated: 06/01/2019 10:11
Changes: 07/04/2014 11:23 (69), 06/01/2019 10:11 (3)
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