Summary
Impact: Remote Code Execution. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.
Details
According to the CVSS metric, the attack vector is network (AV:N) and user interaction is required (UI:R). What is the target context of the remote code execution?
This attack requires a user to open a specially crafted file from the attacker to initiate remote code execution.
How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability?
An unauthenticated attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain code execution through convincing a user to open a malicious document at which point the attacker could execute arbitrary code in the context of the user.
Security updates
10.0.17763.7314 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5058392
10.0.20348.3692 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5058385
10.0.20348.3630 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5058500
10.0.19044.5854 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5058379
10.0.22621.5335 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5058405
10.0.25398.1611 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5058384
10.0.10240.21014 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5058387
10.0.14393.8066 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5058383
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 8.8
Windows Media Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Stack-based buffer overflow in Windows Media allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code over a network.
Revision history
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Information published.
References
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CVE-2025-29840 Windows Media Remote Code Execution Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-29840
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Microsoft Exploitability Index
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/exploitability-index?rtc=1
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Microsoft Support Lifecycle
https://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle
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Common Vulnerability Scoring System
https://www.first.org/cvss