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    CVE-2010-3973

    The WMITools ActiveX control in WBEMSingleView.ocx 1.50.1131.0 in Microsoft WMI Administrative Tools 1.1 and earlier in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted argument to the AddContextRef method, possibly an untrusted pointer dereference, aka "Microsoft WMITools ActiveX Control Vulnerability."

    Published:Dec 23, 2010
    Last Modified:Apr 11, 2025
    EPS:Dec 23, 2010
    EPSS Score:0.78176
    CVSS Score:9.3

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Microsoft
    Product
    Wmi Administrative Tools

    Exploits

    http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15809http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45546http://www.wooyun.org/bug.php?action=view&id=1006http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15809http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45546http://www.wooyun.org/bug.php?action=view&id=1006https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/16516https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15809

    References

    http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2011/01/07/assessing-the-risk-of-public-issues-currently-being-tracked-by-the-msrc.aspx
    http://secunia.com/advisories/42693
    http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15809
    http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/725596
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45546
    http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3301
    http://www.wooyun.org/bug.php?action=view&id=1006
    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2011/ms11-027
    https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64250
    https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12475
    http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2011/01/07/assessing-the-risk-of-public-issues-currently-being-tracked-by-the-msrc.aspx
    http://secunia.com/advisories/42693
    http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15809
    http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/725596
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45546
    http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3301
    http://www.wooyun.org/bug.php?action=view&id=1006
    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2011/ms11-027
    https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64250
    https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12475

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High