CVE-2002-0373 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Media Player 7.1 on Windows 2000 systems. A local attacker can gain LocalSystem rights by manipulating the Windows Media Device Manager (WMDM) Service to connect to an invalid local storage device. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.2, indicating high severity with complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts, and requires local access with low attack complexity. While there is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB) is unavailable, and it is not listed on CISA's KEV catalog; however, it has garnered significant community discussion.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
7.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:windows_media_player:7.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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