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CVE-2007-5133
Microsoft Windows Explorer (explorer.exe) allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a…
High7.1EPSS 22.9%
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- mitre
Description
Microsoft Windows Explorer (explorer.exe) allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a certain PNG file with a large tEXt chunk that possibly triggers an integer overflow in PNG chunk size handling, as demonstrated by badlycrafted.png.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.1 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 22.9% · top 2.3% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.1.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (7)
- 20070925 Possible Windows Explorer bad PNG file preview integer overflow handling (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20070927 Re: Possible Windows Explorer bad PNG file preview integer overflow handling (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20070926 Re: Confirmed: Windows Explorer bad PNG file preview integer overflow handling (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20070927 Re: Re: Re: Confirmed: Windows Explorer bad PNG file preview integer overflow handling (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 25816 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 45521 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 20070927 Re: Re: Re: Re: Confirmed: Windows Explorer bad PNG file preview integer overflow handling (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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