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CVE-2005-0954

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 14.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2005-04-03 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

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 11: 6.0.2900
• Microsoft Windows Explorer: all versions
• Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3: all versions

References

• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111231106513788&w=2
• http://www.securiteam.com/windowsntfocus/5CP081FFFY.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9892
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15507
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111231106513788&w=2
• http://www.securiteam.com/windowsntfocus/5CP081FFFY.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9892
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15507

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