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…
Does this matter?
EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 71.7%, higher than 99% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
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."
- CVSS 2.0
- 9.3 HIGHAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- EPSS
- 71.73% probability · 99th percentile
- Public exploits
- 2 in Exploit-DB · verified · first 22 December 2010
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-94
- Affected
- microsoft/wmi administrative tools
- Source
- secure@microsoft.com
EPSS 71.7% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. 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://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/42693Vendor Advisory
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15809Exploit
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/725596US Government Resource
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45546Exploit
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3301Vendor Advisory
- http://www.wooyun.org/bug.php?action=view&id=1006Exploit
- 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/42693Vendor Advisory
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15809Exploit
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/725596US Government Resource
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45546Exploit
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3301Vendor Advisory
- http://www.wooyun.org/bug.php?action=view&id=1006Exploit
- 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
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.