An information disclosure vulnerability exists in Windows Media Player when it fails to properly handle objects in memory, aka 'Windows Med…

published 2019-12-10 6y ago modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also EUVD-2019-10038

cvss: 4.3; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 16.9%; EPSS 16.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 97%
public exploits: 0; none known

An information disclosure vulnerability exists in Windows Media Player when it fails to properly handle objects in memory, aka 'Windows Media Player Information Disclosure Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2019-1480.

Patch / fix

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portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2019-1481 advisory

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Exploit prediction

16.89% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.1	4.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
NVD	2.0	4.3	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected products

Microsoft Windows

Classification

Weakness

CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read

References

portal.msrc.microsoft.com /en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2019-1481
patch, vendor-advisory
zerodayinitiative.com /advisories/ZDI-19-1003/
third-party-advisory, vdb-entry

Sources

CVE List CVE-2019-1481
NVD CVE-2019-1481

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