CVE-2007-5493

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-10-18 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The SMS handler for Windows Mobile 2005 Pocket PC Phone edition allows attackers to hide the sender field of an SMS message via a malformed WAP PUSH message that causes the PDU to be incorrectly decoded.

Affected products

Microsoft Windows Mobile: 2005

References

http://osvdb.org/45517
http://securitytracker.com/id?1018832
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/482446/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26091
http://www.symantec.com/content/en/us/enterprise/research/SYMSA-2007-011.txt
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/37249
http://osvdb.org/45517
http://securitytracker.com/id?1018832
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/482446/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26091
http://www.symantec.com/content/en/us/enterprise/research/SYMSA-2007-011.txt
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/37249

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