CVE-2007-5493 describes a vulnerability in the SMS handler of Microsoft Windows Mobile 2005 Pocket PC Phone Edition, allowing attackers to obscure the sender of an SMS message. This is achieved by sending a specially crafted WAP PUSH message that leads to incorrect PDU decoding. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3, indicating a medium severity, with low impact on integrity (I:P) and no impact on confidentiality or availability, requiring medium attack complexity (AC:M) over a network (AV:N). There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this decade-old vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
2005CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_mobile:2005:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
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