CVE-2007-1090

Severity: high (CVSS 7.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 17.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-02-26 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Microsoft Windows Explorer on Windows XP and 2003 allows remote user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed WMF file, which triggers the crash when the user browses the folder.

Affected products

Microsoft Windows Explorer: all versions

References

http://osvdb.org/34490
http://securityvulns.com/Qdocument170.html
http://securityvulns.com/news/Microsoft/Windows/Explorer/DoS.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/461373/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22715
http://osvdb.org/34490
http://securityvulns.com/Qdocument170.html
http://securityvulns.com/news/Microsoft/Windows/Explorer/DoS.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/461373/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22715

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