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CVE-2010-3973

N/A
Published: December 23, 2010 at 05:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:23 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorWmi Administrative Tools

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 72%

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."

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (10)

x_refsource_MISC
Source: [email protected]
http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2011/01/07/assessing-the-risk-of-public-issues-currently-being-tracked-by-the-msrc.aspx
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/42693
Exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
Source: [email protected]
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15809
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNUS Government Resource
Source: [email protected]
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/725596
VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDExploit
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45546
VDB Entryx_refsource_VUPENVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3301
x_refsource_MISCExploit
Source: [email protected]
http://www.wooyun.org/bug.php?action=view&id=1006
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_MS
Source: [email protected]
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2011/ms11-027

CVSS

9.3HIGH[email protected]
Confidentiality
COMPLETE
Integrity
COMPLETE
Availability
COMPLETE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-94

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