CVE-2006-0005

CVE Database · CVE-2006-0005

CVE-2006-0005

· N/AModified

CVSS v3.1

N/A

EPSS

38.91%

Published

Feb 14, 2006

Modified

Apr 15, 2026

Public PoC / Exploit (3)

All weaponized →

Exploit-DBMicrosoft Windows Media Player - Plugin Overflow (MS06-006) (3)Exploit-DBMicrosoft Windows Media Player 10 - Plugin Overflow (MS06-006)Exploit-DBMicrosoft Windows Media Player 9 - Plugin Overflow (MS06-006) (Metasploit)

Links to public security research (Exploit-DB, Nuclei, Trickest, GitHub) for defensive use only.

Description

Buffer overflow in the plug-in for Microsoft Windows Media Player (WMP) 9 and 10, when used in browsers other than Internet Explorer and set as the default application to handle media files, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via HTML with an EMBED element containing a long src attribute.

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-119

Affected Products (45)

microsoft · windows-ntvulnerable