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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…
High9.3EPSS 71.7%
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- microsoft
Description
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."
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High9.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 71.7% · top 0.6% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 9.3.
Weakness
Affected products
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References (10)
- http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2011/01/07/assessing-the-risk-of-public-issues-currently-being-tracked-by-the-msrc.aspx (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- ADV-2010-3301 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12475 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- VU#725596 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- http://www.wooyun.org/bug.php?action=view&id=1006 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- MS11-027 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred
- 45546 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- ms-wmi-wbemsingleview-ce(64250) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 15809 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- 42693 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
Sources
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- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
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- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
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- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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