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…
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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
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-94
- Affected
- microsoft/wmi administrative tools
- Source
- secure@microsoft.com
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. Refreshed daily.