CVE-2010-3888
Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Windows on 32-bit platforms allows local users to gain privileges via unknown vectors, as exploited in the wild in July 2010 by the Stuxnet worm, and identified by Kaspersky Lab researchers and other researchers.
Does this matter?
2 public exploits are published in Exploit-DB (verified) and the impact is high, while EPSS rates exploitation at 3.9%. Anyone can run this; patch or mitigate before the next change window and check exposed instances for signs of use.
Description
Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Windows on 32-bit platforms allows local users to gain privileges via unknown vectors, as exploited in the wild in July 2010 by the Stuxnet worm, and identified by Kaspersky Lab researchers and other researchers.
- CVSS 2.0
- 7.2 HIGHAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- EPSS
- 3.90% probability · 90th percentile
- Public exploits
- 2 in Exploit-DB · verified · first 20 November 2010
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Affected
- microsoft/windows
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 3.9% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
Public exploits (2)
Entries in Exploit-DB that cite this CVE. Links go to the Exploit-DB page and to the file in the public repository; nothing is hosted here. A verified tick means the Exploit-DB team confirmed the exploit works against the stated version.
References
- http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9185919/Is_Stuxnet_the_best_malware_ever_
- http://www.eeye.com/Resources/Security-Center/Research/Zero-Day-Tracker/2010/20100716
- http://www.securelist.com/en/blog/2291/Myrtus_and_Guava_Episode_MS10_061
- http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/stuxnet-using-three-additional-zero-day-vulnerabilities
- http://www.virusbtn.com/conference/vb2010/abstracts/LastMinute7.xml
- http://www.virusbtn.com/conference/vb2010/abstracts/LastMinute8.xml
- http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9185919/Is_Stuxnet_the_best_malware_ever_
- http://www.eeye.com/Resources/Security-Center/Research/Zero-Day-Tracker/2010/20100716
- http://www.securelist.com/en/blog/2291/Myrtus_and_Guava_Episode_MS10_061
- http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/stuxnet-using-three-additional-zero-day-vulnerabilities
- http://www.virusbtn.com/conference/vb2010/abstracts/LastMinute7.xml
- http://www.virusbtn.com/conference/vb2010/abstracts/LastMinute8.xml
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.