CVE-2006-0006

highpriority · attend · 64EPSS 0.496 · 99 %ileexploit · functionalEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

2 exploits · functional

Likely / severe?

49.6% (99th) EPSS

CVSS 9.3 · high

Is it mine?

10 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

2 sources

enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

Heap-based buffer overflow in the bitmap processing routine in Microsoft Windows Media Player 7.1 on Windows 2000 SP4, Media Player 9 on Windows 2000 SP4 and XP SP1, and Media Player 10 on XP SP1 and SP2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted bitmap (.BMP) file that specifies a size of 0 but contains additional data.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

9.3

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.09.3highAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8.6 · impact 10

v2.09.3highAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C/E:Hsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-119USprimary

exploits (2)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

EDB-1500Microsoft Windows Media Player 7.1 < 10 - '.BMP' Heap Overflow (PoC) (MS06-005) (1)functional · exploit_db
EDB-1502Microsoft Windows Media Player 7.1 < 10 - '.BMP' Heap Overflow (MS06-005) (2)functional · exploit_db

affected products (10)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
microsoft windows 2000all versionsnvdUScpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_2000:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft windows 2003 server= r2nvdUScpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_2003_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft windows 98all versionsnvdUScpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_98:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft windows 98seall versionsnvdUScpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_98se:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft windows meall versionsnvdUScpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_me:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft windows media player= 10nvdUScpe:2.3:a:microsoft:windows_media_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft windows media player= 7.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:microsoft:windows_media_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft windows media player= 9nvdUScpe:2.3:a:microsoft:windows_media_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft windows xpall versionsnvdUScpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_xp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (2)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2006-02-14modified 2026-06-16

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references (32)

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