CVE-2008-4927

Exp

Microsoft Windows Media Player (WMP) 9.0 through 11 allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed (1) MIDI or (2) DAT file, related to "MThd Header Parsing." NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information.

Published: 2008-11-04 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2008-4927 is rated High Exploit Risk (66.7/100): CVSS Medium severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 25.91%, 96th percentile). Core evidence: 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: 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-2008-4927

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2008-4927

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 2025-11-04 25.02% 25.91% +0.89%
2 2025-03-30 13.44% 25.02% +11.58%
3 2025-03-29 13.44%

Full EPSS history (13 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2008-4927

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-2008-4927

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2008-4927

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
microsoft windows_media_player 9 cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:windows_media_player:9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft windows_media_player 10 cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:windows_media_player:10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft windows_media_player 11 cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:windows_media_player:11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2008-4927

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