CVE-2007-5493

Severity

43%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

48%

The SMS handler for Windows Mobile 2005 Pocket PC Phone edition allows attackers to hide the sender field of an SMS message via a malformed WAP PUSH message that causes the PDU to be incorrectly decoded.

The SMS handler for Windows Mobile 2005 Pocket PC Phone edition allows attackers to hide the sender field of an SMS message via a malformed WAP PUSH message that causes the PDU to be incorrectly decoded.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.3. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N).

Overview

First reported 17 years ago

2007-10-18 00:17:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-15 21:45:00

Affected Software

Microsoft Windows Mobile 2005 Pocket PC Phone

2005

References

45517

1018832

20071017 SYMSA-2007-011: Microsoft WM5 PocketPC Phone Ed SMS Handler Issue

26091

http://www.symantec.com/content/en/us/enterprise/research/SYMSA-2007-011.txt

win-mobile-sms-obfuscation(37249)

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