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CVE-2001-0148

42
FAUCET Score

CVE-2001-0148 describes a critical vulnerability in the Windows Media Player 7 ActiveX Control, allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands within Internet Explorer through specially crafted JavaScript URLs. This high-severity vulnerability (CVSS 7.5) requires low attack complexity and no authentication, potentially leading to compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not listed on the KEV catalog, an ExploitDB entry exists for this vulnerability, and it has a high FAUCET Risk Score, indicating its potential for exploitation despite a lack of current active exploitation or community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:windows_media_player:7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
26.76%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
97.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-20528 · Jan 1, 2001
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.2676 is in the 96th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

archives.neohapsis.com / archives/bugtraq/2001-01/0000.html
ExploitPatchVendor Advisory
docs.microsoft.com / en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2001/ms01-015
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/6227