Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 18, 2007· Updated Apr 23, 2026

CVE-2007-5493

Description

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.

Affected products

Microsoft/Windows Mobile
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_mobile:2005:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.

References

osvdb.org/45517nvd
securitytracker.com/idnvd
www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/482446/100/0/threadednvd
www.securityfocus.com/bid/26091nvd
www.symantec.com/content/en/us/enterprise/research/SYMSA-2007-011.txtnvd
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/37249nvd

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