CVE-2017-0042

low
Published 2017-03-17 ยท Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
3.1
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
3.1

Description

Windows Media Player in Microsoft Windows 8.1; Windows Server 2012 R2; Windows RT 8.1; Windows 7 SP1; Windows 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows Server 2016; Windows Vista SP2; and Windows 10 Gold, 1511, and 1607 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a crafted web site, aka "Windows Media Player Information Disclosure Vulnerability."

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
42%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact

windows Windows Affected 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
r2 Affected โ€”
1607 Affected โ€”
1511 Affected โ€”
- Affected โ€”
โ€” Affected โ€”

References

CWEs

CWE-200

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.