CVE-2006-6601

Exp

Windows Media Player 10.00.00.4036 in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a .MID (MIDI) file with a malformed header chunk without any track chunks, possibly involving (1) number of tracks of (2) time division fields that are set to 0.

Published: 2006-12-15 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2006-6601 is rated High Exploit Risk (66.1/100): CVSS Medium severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 42.81%, 97th percentile). 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2006-6601

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
2935 exploit_db edb 2006-12-15 Exploit-DB ↗
29285 exploit_db edb 2006-12-15 Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2006-6601

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-04-27 43.06% 42.81% -0.26%
2 2025-09-25 44.01% 43.06% -0.94%
3 2025-08-03 — 44.01% —

Full EPSS history (19 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2006-6601

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
4.3 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
 8.6 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2006-6601

OS Trackers for CVE-2006-6601

vendor priority summary link
alpine — CVE-2006-6601: no source package rows; 0 state rows across 0 repos (none); fixed 0, open 0. https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2006-6601

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2006-6601

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
windows media_player 10.00.00.4036 cpe:2.3:a:windows:media_player:10.00.00.4036:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft windows_xp — cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_xp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2006-6601

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